Word: godfreys
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Died. Sir Godfrey Tearle, 68, veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London...
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...Which Wilson's air-minded friend, Arthur Godfrey, found nearly as painful as the after-effects of hip surgery in Boston. Said Godfrey last week: "I sit here worrying myself sick about it ... I know whatever Erwin does must be O.K. But I'd like to know why this?" Three days later, Wilson flew up to Boston to explain. Reported Godfrey, after the explanation: "He said none of it would jeopardize the Strategic Air Command...
Soon Wilson was at war on another uncharted battle front, with some of the more prominent members of the press. The trouble began last January, when Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop blasted Wilson for his plan to appoint his great friend, CBS Funnyman Arthur Godfrey, as Defense Department representative to the President's Psychological Strategy Board. Wilson finally surrendered to White House pressure and named Kyes instead of Godfrey, but he muttered grimly, in retreat: "No columnist is going to run the Department of Defense." He was livid with anger eleven weeks ago, when Drew Pearson published the full...
Neither Snow, nor Rain . . . In Oswego, N.Y., Mrs. Thomas Keefe finally received a postcard mailed April 8, 1911, in Lyons, N.Y., 35 miles away, by her brother Godfrey, who died 39 years...