Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After convalescing for three months on his Virginia farm and in his Manhattan apartment from lung-cancer surgery, TV-Radio Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, paused in San Francisco on his airborne way to Hawaii. A voluntary exile from show business since his operation, Godfrey will tape some Waikiki Beach sequences in Honolulu for release on CBS-TV this fall...
Checking out of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center after a lung-cancer operation (TIME, May n), TV-Radio Entertainer Arthur Godfrey, 55, met the press in the most harrowing interview of his life. Pale and shaky, he first tried to carry it off bravely: "Just like I told you when I came in, I feel fine." Though he soon gave way to tears, he still managed to keep his old red head in describing his bout with the malignant growth in his chest. "That damnable" tumor had even adhered to the aorta, great artery from the heart. Sobbing...
...medium that once saw Bishop Sheen and Arthur Godfrey nominated for the same award ("Outstanding Personality of the Year") had changed not a bit. The academy this time managed to match lightfooted Fred Astaire with Actor Christopher Plummer and 14-year-old Robert Crawford in the race for "Best Single Performance by an Actor." Winner: Hoofer Astaire. (Astaire also won eight other awards, exactly 27 lbs. of Emmys, all for his memorable song-and-dance show last October.) The catalogue of categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there...
UNDER KNIFE, GODFREY HAS LUNG CANCER, GODFREY TO BE TOLD, GODFREY TAKES...
...tough medical facts: the upper lobe of his left lung was cancerous and had to be removed. The cancer, which was suspected from X rays taken two weeks ago when Godfrey complained of chest pains, may have been caught in time. (The survival rate is 35% when the cancer has not spread...