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Still officially grounded by CAA for impetuously buzzing the control tower at Teterboro Airport, N.J. last January, Radio-TV Favorite Arthur Godfrey nonetheless stepped up before the National Aviation Trades Association meeting at Virginia Beach to accept a diamond-studded silver punch bowl as a token of his contribution toward popularizing aviation. Humbly, he apologized for "getting into a little trouble with the CAA," then beat CAA to the punch by announcing that, come Sept. 16, Pilot Godfrey, who has passed a new physical exam, will have CAA's O.K. to fly again...
Meanwhile, in London, a weighty if irascible voice was raised in defense of U.S. broadcasting. Testy Sir Thomas Beecham took four columns in the Sunday Times to tell his countrymen what was right about U.S. radio-TV. Musically, he said, the U.S. was far ahead, with weekly broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera six months a year and "the opportunity of hearing and seeing the great majority of the famous violinists, pianists, cellists, etc. of our time, whose respective fees are beyond the means of any other system outside the U.S.A.'' Conceding that these blessings were accompanied...
Married. Gloria Grahame, blonde (The Bad and the Beautiful] cinemadventuress, 25; and radio-TV's Boy Wonder Cy Howard, 38 (My Friend Irma, Life with Luigi); she for the third time, he for the second; under an olive tree in the patio of his Beverly Hills home...
Every Wednesday night, Bill Cullen plays a parlor game in Manhattan. Then he flies to Los Angeles to play a parlor game there on Thursday nights. Then he flies back to New York to spend four hours chatting on NBC-Radio. For these jmd similar radio-TV chores, Master of Ceremonies Cullen earns about $150,000 a year. He says wonderingly: "I guess I'm the luckiest guy in the world...
Died. Mrs. Idabelle Smith Firestone, 79, widow of Rubber Tycoon Harvey S. Firestone Sr., sometime composer (/f / Could Tell You, In My Garden, opening and closing themes on radio-TV's venerable Voice of Firestone); after long illness; in Akron...