Word: godfrey
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Freberg's parodies continue to gleam even as their subjects fade into history. Arthur Godfrey, the hugely popular star of 1950s radio, was the target of a 1953 Freberg cut, never before released but included in the boxed set. Godfrey may be all but forgotten, but Freberg's gag about his obsequious sidekick, who answers every comment with a knee-jerk, "That's right, Arthur," sums up a century of show-biz sycophancy...
Bell is a throwback. Unlike other broadcast biggies, he doesn't bully his callers or sensationalize his material. He knows it's sensational enough, so he sells it with a soothing baritone and the coaxing, folksy manner of a modern Arthur Godfrey. He doesn't whine or blurt, even if melodrama is swirling around him. When Bell abruptly left Coast to Coast last October for three weeks and took another hiatus this April, he showed old-fashioned reserve in keeping his private anguish private...
...British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield invents the computerized tomography scanner (CAT scan), which builds a 3-D image of the brain...
...magazine down on his desk, ranted about how we were out to destroy him, then marched around his desk and shook his fist in my face. "People remember other people for one thing," he ranted on. "They remember Calvin Coolidge for wearing an Indian headdress. They remember Arthur Godfrey for buzzing the tower at Teterboro Airport. They will remember me for posing for a clothing magazine...
SOUTH CAROLINA: Lester 11-19 9-9 31; Miars 5-18 1-3 12; Williams 2-9 6-7 10; Ramsey 2-6 2-4 6; Jeffcoat 2-5 0-0 4; White 2-4 0-0 4; Godfrey 1-5 0-0 3; Lee 1-5 0-0 2. TOTALS...