Word: godfreys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same as a thousand other shows in which the freckle-faced redhead had played up to his vast television audience. There were the same folksy-folksy jokes, the same rasp-voiced sentimentality about things, places and people. But Arthur Godfrey's last appearance last week was on tape; he was in a hospital bed, waiting for surgery on a tumor that turned out to be cancer of the lung...
Under the circumstances, Godfrey's performance was peculiarly moving. When he climbed aboard his palomino Goldie to exhibit his amateur's skill at dressage, the demands of a bad hip made him mount like a drugstore cowboy. Somehow, after 30 years of broadcasting, he knew how to turn the awkward maneuver into an exhibition of grace and courage. "These are the things that keep us alive and kicking," he said, as he turned to his little Arab colt later in the program. "I have to come back to see what he's going to look like next...
...press showed no such restraint. Black, lugubrious headlines and sob-sister stories followed Godfrey through every trying hour of every trying day: GODFREY...
...hymn (air by Thomas Preston, words by Godfrey Lias) was far from music to the ears of the Manchester Guardian, which huffed editorially: "This has a ring of 'confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks'-the words now rightly dropped from our national anthem." The Guardian was reminded of Sir John Squire's lines...
...Radio Performer-Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, signed into a Manhattan hospital, where surgeons will check up on a chest tumor. Discounting the "ivy growing in this old Irish ruin," Airman Godfrey gamely commented: "Even if the tumor is malignant, I think I've 'caught it in time-and I know people who've lived a long time with only one lung. I've flown one-engine before...