Word: godfreys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meat-fed Trout. The brothers live as differently as they dress. George dwells (with son-in-law Sheldon Stewart) in a spacious Georgian house in Montclair, N.J., where he lives a lonely life despite the ministrations of ten servants. He amuses himself watching television (his favorite: Arthur Godfrey), listening to an electric organ played with automatic rolls, working jigsaw puzzles and tinkering with radio and TV sets. In the summer, he allows himself a suite at the ocean-side Monmouth Hotel in Spring Lake, N.J., but commutes to the office every day. He has never taken a vacation...
...Singer Eddie Fisher has had plenty of chances at the big time. When he was 18 he got as far as Manhattan's expensive Copacabana, even though his talents were hidden behind a bevy of beautiful arm-waving chorus girls. Two years ago, he won an Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts contest. Last fall, Eddie Cantor heard Fisher singing at a summer resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates in small clubs and theaters...
Nothing was heard from the Met. Yma sang in a folk-song festival in Carnegie Hall, did a turn in Manhattan's sophisticated supper club, the Blue Angel. Last year, she made Arthur Godfrey's radio show twice, We the People once. But until she hit Hollywood Bowl a fortnight ago, Yma never really caught...
...disc jockey makes about $7,000 a year. U.S. radio employs thousands of them (e.g., Los Angeles has 30 disc jockeys). Most of them hope some day to make as much as New York's Martin Block ($200,000 a year), who claims-over the protests of Arthur Godfrey-to have been the first of his kind...
Bangor: Prentiss Godfrey '38; 6 State St., Bangor...