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...Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary...
Franklin Roosevelt seemed indeed to be spoiling for a fight. When Newscaster Earl ("Punkinhead") Godwin-who always sits beside the President's desk and is a press conference favorite-brought up the subject of the Montgomery Ward seizure (TIME, May 8), the President replied that he knew someone would ask that question, someone looking for trouble. Meekly, Earl Godwin demurred that he was not looking for anything of the kind. But the President was prepared: in his hands he held a brief, typewritten history of the Montgomery Ward battle...
Commentator John W. Vandercook was in good voice, but neglected to recall that "if you open both the top and bottom [of a window] as far as they will go" the window is still shut. H. R. Baukhage sweated, and Earl Godwin's face went red and stayed that way. Leland Stowe seemed rusty after his long Russian sojourn...
...meeting of the Naval Officers' Wives Club, Captain Godwin, head of all the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps camps in the First Service District, spoke describing the duties and work of the WAACs...
...Pledge America, a six-hour, 45-minute show, was the longest in the Blue Network's history. The broadcast started at 9 p.m. Saturday and continued until 4 a.m. Sunday with only one 15-minute interruption (at 11, to let Ford's Earl Godwin repeat Watch the World Go By for Western listeners...