Word: fullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing which led Fred Allen to call Godfrey "the man with the barefoot voice." His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs...
...former Kathryn Morton of Ossining, N.Y. Father Godfrey, a freelance writer and expert on horseflesh, claimed to be the son of Sir John Godfrey, onetime Viceroy of India and scion of a wealthy Liverpool brewing family. Arthur recalls that his father was "a raconteur and a gentleman full of old-school aristocratic thinking. Therefore, in business, he stunk." Since none of the ancestral glories have proved verifiable, Arthur now suspects that his father embroidered them to 'compensate for his financial failure...
...amateur hour at station WFBR. With his banjo and one-octave voice, he landed a birdseed company as a $5-a-show sponsor. He also picked up another chore-introducing the speeches of Maryland's late, belligerently anti-dry Governor Albert Ritchie. When Godfrey was offered a full-time job on WFBR, the governor helped him get his separation from the Coast Guard...
...phoning him maudlin professions of love. Walter Wirichell was on the phone at 5 a.m., and carried a rave for Godfrey in his column. Just before sunup, Godfrey wished aloud that he had some coffee. About 8,000 Washingtonians got into their cars and drove out with sandwiches and full Thermos bottles...
...book-selling jaunts around the U.S., Simon & Schuster's stooped, hulking President Richard L. Simon often buys books himself, scorning the discount dealers offer him. "I want to pay the full price," says Simon, "so I'll know after I read a book whether I got my money's worth. Most of the time...