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...published stories, though, came up to the statement composed by the self-styled "old cracked-up Irish ruin" himself before he went under the knife. "Mentally, I'm a mess. You've heard of mixed emotions? Man, this is rough . . . If it's a benign tumor of some sort, hurray for our side-no more sweat. If the damn thing is malignant, cancerous, then there's real trouble . . . Never felt better in my life. Then, boom: this horrible, skulking 'thing' visible only as a ghostly shadow on an X-ray negative. This 'thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Grace & Courage | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...redhead had played up to his vast television audience. There were the same folksy-folksy jokes, the same rasp-voiced sentimentality about things, places and people. But Arthur Godfrey's last appearance last week was on tape; he was in a hospital bed, waiting for surgery on a tumor that turned out to be cancer of the lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Grace & Courage | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Radio Performer-Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, signed into a Manhattan hospital, where surgeons will check up on a chest tumor. Discounting the "ivy growing in this old Irish ruin," Airman Godfrey gamely commented: "Even if the tumor is malignant, I think I've 'caught it in time-and I know people who've lived a long time with only one lung. I've flown one-engine before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Money. In the official announcement of the sale. Jack Knight pleaded "personal reasons" for dropping the biggest link in his chain. He has had a heavy heart since his youngest son. Frank, who was being groomed to take over the empire, died at 30 last spring of a brain tumor. After 40 years of answering the midnight bell. Jack Knight wanted to "relax a little." To the remaining Knight papers, he sent assurances that he had no intention of liquidating the chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Voices in Chicago | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...wood-paneled oval room of the Kremlin's Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government had just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other way out" but to denounce the Berlin occupation agreements, hand over Russia's present supervision of Allied traffic from the West to its "sovereign" East German puppet state, and-as a "realistic" concession-leave West Berlin "for the time being" in the status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Khrushchev's Plan | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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