Word: stardom
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...Manhattan headquarters: "Godfrey's done it again." Without warning, TV's Arthur Godfrey had called in three writers and six members of his cast, bluntly told them that they were fired "in the interests of good showmanship." Said Godfrey to the press: "These people have all achieved stardom, and I am proud of them." For all Godfrey's abruptness, some reorganization was overdue. Arthur Godfrey and his Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS), showing the same faces week after week, has been losing listeners to ABC's Disneyland. Explained Godfrey: "We're top-heavy with stars...
...only been long; it has been good. He developed divers Francis Gosling and Michael Johnson, sending the former to the Olympics in 1948 and both of them to the Games in '52. In fact, when he turned out William Gaskill, Frank Sheridan, and Bernard Kelly, all of whom hit stardom off the board, he became known as one of the country's best diving coaches...
With strikingly individual Eartha Kitt-risen from blues-singing to stardom-playing Teddy in a darting, prickling style, Mrs. Patterson has more in its favor than a sympathetic theme and a sharp approach. Yet the play as a whole is curiously flat and eventually tedious. The fault springs from nothing genteel or unhumorous in treatment: the authors squarely face Teddy's conflicts long before she does. Nor need the play's want of real movement, its mere alternations between fact and fantasy, prove fatal. But lacking outward progression, Mrs. Patterson needs real leverage of words, real voltage...
Born. To Bobby Breen, 27, onetime singing cinemoppet (currently making a comeback on TV) who piped his way to stardom at eight (Let's Sing Again, Make a Wish), and red-haired ex-Model Jocelyn Lesh, 22: their first child; in Brooklyn. Name: Hunter Keith. Weight...
...player probably most responsible for Brown's successful season has been the 5'9" senior quarterback from Ambridge, Pa., Pete Kohut. Kohut, who rose from sophomore obscurity two years ago, to stardom last season, leads the League in total yardage with a total...