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...Blue Network last week went the two fattest news "show" contracts of the year: a 15-minute commentary by Raymond Gram Swing for Socony-Vacuum four times a week at 10 p.m., and a 15-minute newscast by Earl Godwin for Ford Motor Co. at 8 p.m. daily...
...Bumbling Earl Godwin's sudden emergence as one of radio's high-priced newsmen is a triumph for corn. His reports from Washington for NBC have always sounded as if they were delivered from a cracker barrel near the stove in the general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME...
...Washington correspondents, Godwin is known as Punkinhead and The End Man (because he was the one who always ended White House press conferences with a "Thank you, Mr. President...
...Godwin will receive $200 a broadcast. For the first month he will work seven days a week, after that five days. He broke into radio in 1935 when the Washington Times gave him $10 a week extra to broadcast its news program. Three years later he found a $100-a-week sponsor, Thompson's Dairy, but was expected to kick back 40% of his check to the paper. Godwin asked the dairy to make out two checks, one for $60 and one for $40. "Then I thought it was unfair for Cissie [Patterson] to take my money...
...automatically. Some 35-45% of its revenue has long come from coal-easy-riding. full-loading traffic on which any railroad should make money. Then came defense. Since 1939 at least 130 new industries have camped at L. & N.'s roadside. These include giants like TVA's Godwin, Tenn. phosphate plant (4,800 carloads annually), the Wolf Creek ordnance plant at Milan, Tenn. Moreover, L. & N. now hauls soldiers, food and equipment directly to twelve Army camps and nine air bases, indirectly to many more...