Word: godfreys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skit was certainly no broader in its assault on humor than many another on Arthur Godfrey & His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Dressed as whitewings, Godfrey, Crooner Morton Downey and Hollywood Comic Jack Carson appeared on the screen pushing street cleaners' brooms. Said Godfrey: "Well, we've dished a lot of it out. Let's clean some...
...this occasion, Godfrey's usually good timing was off-base as well as off-color. Just the day before, speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...
VARSITY HOCKEY--Major Hockey H--David M. Abbot '50, William A. Allen '50, Douglas S. H. Anderson '51, William L. Bliss '52, Dustin M. Burke '52, John J. Garman '51, John R. Chase '50, Robert V. DiBiasio '51, John J. Deneian, Jr. '52, William L. Garrity, Jr. '50, Godfrey G. Howard '50, Myles D. Huntington '50, Joseph B. Kittredge '52, Harold T. Marshall, Jr. '52, George R. Minot, 2nd '51, Lewis T. Preston '51, Henry D. Sedgwick, 2nd '51, Carl W. Timpson, Jr. '52, and Andrew A. Hunter '51, Manager...
Jack Benny was named "the greatest radio personality during the last 25 years" by 330 U.S. radio editors in a Radio Daily poll published last week. Bing Crosby ran a close second. Tied for third place: Bob Hope and Amos 'n' Andy. Also-rans: Walter Winchell, Arthur Godfrey, Lowell Thomas, Major Bowes, H. V. Kaltenborn, Alexander Woollcott, Will Rogers...
...Goldbergs (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Guests: Arthur Godfrey and Arnold Stang...