Word: godfreys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Godfrey was complaining that the newspapers had declared "open season" on him. Two weeks ago, he made the front pages when Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield) dropped its seven-year sponsorship of his radio & TV shows. Last week he was making headlines because of charges that he had endangered life, limb and property by buzzing the control tower at Teterboro (N.J.) Airport after taking off in his DC-3 for Virginia...
Flight for Life. Nor was that all. When he flew on to Miami to broadcast from his favorite Kenilworth Hotel. Godfrey scented another conspiracy: some prankish...
...engineer was deliberately fading out his voice on the transmission between Miami and Manhattan. On the air, Godfrey demanded: "I wonder who the guy is . . . Wonder who that could be? I wonder if he likes his job? Maybe he doesn't like what he's doing, huh? Maybe he should get out of this business, huh? Maybe he should take up shoveling snow-we'll see if we can't arrange that." But the charge of "flat-hatting"*against aging (50) Airman Godfrey was not so easy to dismiss as an errant engineer. The charge...
...whispers grew louder in Manhattan. Godfrey was reported to have said that he was giving up smoking. Alternatively, he was said to have switched from Chesterfields to a pipe. Some pundits sagely viewed the incident as a sign of Godfrey's decline: "Coming after the LaRosa rumpus, it's another blow at Godfrey's prestige." Godfrey was rumored to be leaving CBS for NBC. to be retiring from radio & TV, to be thinking of entering 1) the Government or 2) a monastery...
Hidden Bodies. By week's end the dust was settling a little. General Motors eagerly jumped in to fill the sponsor's gap on the Godfrey & His Friends show and other advertisers were lining up to replace Chesterfield in the open radio &. TV "segments. CBS President Frank Stanton saw the rupture merely as a matter of personalities: "There are no hidden bodies. It was just a lot of little things. For over two years we couldn't get together on renewing a contract. It's a little like a divorce is sometimes...