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Show ' 1UE Tbe Salt Luke Tribune Sunday, March 20, 1 f r 1983 Godfrey:'A man loved by millions 'Tree of Lifer sculpture to rise in desert By Lee Winfrey Swedish architectartist has detall signed and will build a sculpture adjacent to Interstate 80 in the western desert 15 miles west of Knolls in Tooele County. The work, entitled Tree of Life," will be visible for 15 miles each way while traveling along the highway. IraKarim Momen, a nian, schooled as an architect in Germany, received his inspiration for the project while driving through y the desert on a trip. "When Mr. Momen saw the land near the Salt Flats he became very excited," said Dennis Smith, who is on the board of directors of the Utah Arts Council, and the person with whom Mr. Momen shared his idea. The statement he is making with the sculpture is that the Salt Flats has an that part of the country appearance he does not see anywhere else. He has not done a lot of sculpture, but hes always wanted to do something large. The tree image is something that has appeared in many of his paintings. Its a symbol of mans relationship with nature. The trunk of the tree will be made of reinforced concrete with the "foliage depiction made of d diameter steel balls, with baked enamel. Final approval for the project must be secured from the Utah State Lands and Forestry Division and the Tooele County Planning Commission. The land will be leased from the state by a Salt Lake City engineering firm, S.K. Hart Engineering, and donated for the project. Since Mr. Momen resides in Sweden, the project is being directed locally by Gisselle Jamea and Khos Semnani of S.K. Engineering. Mr. Momen has mainly been involved in the design of hospitals abroad, and has displayed his paintings at galleries throughout Europe. The approximate cost of the Tree of Life project, according to Mr. Smith, is 8500,000. A 68-fo- ot cross-countr- 10-fo- ot multi-colore- m m view looking east of proposed tall sculpture to be located in tbe desert, 15 miles west of Knolls. A 68-fo- ot till; been more of a memory than an active presence for more than a decade. But in his time, Godfrey was the best, like Ed SuUivan was, like James Arness was when Guns-mok- e was the "Dallas of its day. There are echoes of Godfrey in current TV personalities as diverse in looks and style as NBC newsman Tom Brokaw and CBS football analyst John Madden. Everyone who trades in talk, whether it is light patter or the smooth delivery of charming commentary, owes a debt to Arthur Godfrey. The old redhead was one of the pioneers who showed everyone else how to do it. David Hartman, the host of ABCs Good Morning America, has hoNewspapers Arthur Godfrey, who died in New mogenized Godfrey and all his deYork Wednesday of pneumonia and scendants into one seamless skein of sophisticated skills. emphysema at age 79, was a pioneer of television, one of the creators of But Godfrey put his persona tothe folksy, friendly style of commugether by himself. He had to, since nication employed today by such no previous model existed. With his stars as Johnny Carson, David Hartcheery standard greeting of man and Charles Kurait. Howaya, howaya and a little uke-lel- e as his principal prop, he sold Godfrey was the smiling embodiment of an old cliche, a man loved himself as smoothly, perhaps even more smoothly, than the products he by millions. During his peak in the 1950s, he and Lucille Ball were the pitched. biggest stars on CBS, the dominant In 1959, he announced that he was network of the decade. .stricken with lung cancer. To milOriginally a radio star, be lions, it seemed as though a member switched to TV in 1948, when video of their own family were ill. They was only an infant. His voice was the had spent so many evenings with basis of his success, reflecting his Godfrey that, like Walter Cronkite beginnings in radio. But his round later, he seemed more like an uncle face, red hair and cheery smile were than some distant video figure. almost equally as important in the Although he recovered from cancer after a lung was removed, Godcomposition of a public personality who filled the. little screen with frey never regained his former popwarmth and friendliness. ularity in the 1960s.Like Sid Caesar, My own memories of Godfrey are he was hugely popular for a time, welded to childhood images of my then slipped from his pinnacle as father, who was one of his fans. A fresher faces filled the little screen. Tennessee lawyer, postmaster and Although he did occasional commercials as recently as last year, he had stonemason, my father was initially suspicious of television, whose first programs were produced in New York. But Codfrcy, with his begin nings in Baltimore and his later residence a huge Virginia farm, was BARGAIN MATINEES DAILY close to the smaller cities and counTill 4:00 P.M. Except Sunday tryside that my father knew best. He "HIGH ROAD felt that Godfrey, unlike some of the TO CHINA" (PO) New York types who populated tele1:30, 3:45, BOO, BOB. 1000 vision in those days, wasnt trying to "MONARCH OF hustle, con or euchre him. My father THE MOUNTAIN" (O) trusted Arthur Godfrey. 100, 300, 500, 700, 900 So did millions of others. That was the key to Godfreys success. He not "nKEWALKER" (90) only helped make the new medium 1:30,3:30,5:30,7:30,9:30 of TV acceptable; he was one of those entertainers who made it 'CURTAINS" () 100.445. 8:15 seem almost indispensable. 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