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...turned last week, Arthur Godfrey appeared to be in trouble. The Civil Aeronautics Board had given him ten days to answer the charges of careless flying made against him by the CAA. If Godfrey admitted thai: he had deliberately buzzed the control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, he was almost certain to be disciplined (by reprimand, fine, suspension or revocation of his private pilot's license). If. on the other hand, he could come up with no better excuse than the one he had used in his broadcast-that his twin-engined DC-3 was blown...
...open season" on him. Two weeks ago, he made the front pages when Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield) dropped its seven-year sponsorship of his radio & TV shows. Last week he was making headlines because of charges that he had endangered life, limb and property by buzzing the control tower at Teterboro (N.J.) Airport after taking off in his DC-3 for Virginia...
Glass, director of aviation for the Port of New York Authority, which operates Teterboro Airport. Citing airport witnesses, Glass told the Civil Aeronautics Administration that on take-off Godfrey gained an altitude of 20 to 30 feet, then made an abrupt left turn, narrowly missed three planes that were warming up on the taxiway, skimmed over a hangar, and thundered directly toward an 87-ft. control tower, whose occupants fled for their lives...
...York Post's Earl Wilson concluded that this just wasn't Godfrey's year, urged that he "take a long rest." Ed Sullivan of the News reported that the Teterboro control tower had immediately called Godfrey to ask if his plane was out of control, and Godfrey had flippantly replied: "No, that's just a normal Teterboro take-off." The Mirror's Nick Kenny came valiantly, if ineptly, to Godfrey's defense. Kenny vaguely hinted that there was still another conspiracy, this time by "the proCommunists who do too much of the hiring & firing...
Flying the same Beechcraft Bonanza used by the late Bill Odom for his 1949 record hop from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J., Illinois Congressman Peter F. Mack Jr., 34, left Springfield on the first lap of his round-the-world "Abraham Lincoln Good Will Tour." The purpose: to visit the people of some 30 nations and convince them that "Americans don't want war any more than they do." He expects to be home by January with some results to report...