Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaping up for the new TV season, frog-voiced Arthur Godfrey, with familiar humility, let three oldtime helpers out of the pond. No longer little Godfreys: easygoing Singer Janette Davis, since 1956 producer of Arthur's low-rated Talent Scouts show; her husband, Frank Musiello, associate producer of the same program; Robert Bleyer, director of both Talent Scouts and Godfrey's morning two-hour TV sales pitch...
Nevertheless, the program's staunchest boosters are the companies working under its umbrella. Boston's Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., which bought the first policy in 1948 on its British carbon-black plant, points out that an insured company gets a big boost in its credit rating. General Mills, after insuring a bean-processing setup in Pakistan, was so sold on the insurance that it made plans to insure all new foreign investments, "though we hope never to have to collect...
Most radio network executives are defiantly optimistic in public, but privately worried. CBS apparently believes that there is no use in bucking TV in the evening with any strong radio competition; it fills the sunny hours unimaginatively with soap opera and such housewife pacifiers as Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter. At ABC, which dropped untold thousands in network radio last year, gloom is officially repressed. But one network bigwig groaned last week: "Network radio is just a ghost. They're doing horseradish. All we're doing is keeping the lines...
ONCE when old Georges Clemenceau was accused of bringing down one French government after another, he retorted: "But it's always the same government." Perhaps it was then, but is it now? For TIME Correspondent Godfrey Blunden's report on the tensions that grip Frenchmen as they search for a government-and their place in the 20th century - see FOREIGN NEWS, Paris in the Spring...
From Paris, where France was in its fourth week without a government, TIME Correspondent Godfrey Blunden cabled...