Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Children of every race and nationality thronged a UNICEF Christmas party at the United Nations, but one kid asked Comedian Godfrey Cambridge: "Why are you a brown Santa?" "We come in all colors this year," breezed Santa, who had even stuffed the traditional pillow under his belt. Time was when he would not have needed it; Cambridge once weighed...
...Scott Godfrey took a pass from the left face-off circle and beat Durno from ten feet to tie the game, and the Eagles had the momentum again...
...should never have cast her in A Walk with Love and Death. She found herself "no good, awful. There's so many young girls waiting for the opportunity, dying ... I shouldn't have been that selfish." On an earlier show, during a discussion on world overpopulation, Arthur Godfrey leaned over, asked David, "Wanna know a secret?," and then told a nationwide audience that he had himself sterilized. How is one's sex life after the operation? Said Godfrey: "Even better...
...hardly seems to miss Howdy Doody, Fulton J. Sheen, Milton Berle or Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. But then there is Dave Garroway. Rising out of Chicago in the late 1940s, he blazed the interview show trail with a questing curiosity, melodious baritone voice, quiet manner, and a mind like spun glass-intricate but clear. Plus, of course, thick-rimmed glasses that gave a whole generation of imitators that owlish look. After 1961, when he felt compelled to quit because of his wife's death, he became just a memory. Yet even today, when a videophile hears...
After wartime service with Stars and Stripes, Rooney spent the late 1940s freelance writing for books and magazines but turned to radio and TV when he discovered that he could not make a predictable living in print. He was concocting material for Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore and others when CBS News President Fred Friendly in 1964 hired him away from show...