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...Arthur Godfrey!' Right away everything changes-nothing's on the level any more...
...escape swarming admirers, Godfrey takes most of his meals in his hotel room or CBS office. When he goes out, it is to such tony restaurants as the Stork Club, where fans do not annoy him. On vacations in Miami, he stays at the "carefully restricted" Kenilworth Hotel ("Nobody knows who I am, there. They never heard of Arthur Godfrey...
...Here We Go Again!" The world first heard the famed Godfrey voice on an August day in 1903 in response to a doctor's postnatal slap. He was the first-born of five children-of Arthur Hanbury Godfrey and the former Kathryn Morton of Ossining, N.Y. Father Godfrey, a freelance writer and expert on horseflesh, claimed to be the son of Sir John Godfrey, onetime Viceroy of India and scion of a wealthy Liverpool brewing family. Arthur recalls that his father was "a raconteur and a gentleman full of old-school aristocratic thinking. Therefore, in business, he stunk." Since...
...wrestling bricks from kiln to wheelbarrow to freight car. He was befriended in New York by a prostitute with a storybook heart of gold; by a sentimental Irish cop in Akron; by a priest who gave him his first religious instruction. In 1920, to continue his interrupted education, Godfrey joined the Navy, was baptized a. Roman Catholic by his chaplain at Norfolk, and-briefly-was fired by the ambition to become a priest...
...years later Greece and Turkey were at war in Asia Minor. Having worked hard at correspondence courses, Godfrey finally had to choose between waiting for an appointment to the Naval Academy or shipping as radioman third class on a destroyer flotilla heading for the Mediterranean. "I had missed World War I," he says, "and I wasn't going to miss this...