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Show Bio-Brief Candid Approach Still Paying Off Arthur Godfrey, one of the most talkative (he's on the air more than 20 hours each week) men in radio, was born Aug. 31, 1903, in New York City . . . was raised in Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., also the home town of a singer named Sinatra . . . left home at 15 and became, among other things, a coal miner, architect's office boy, cemetery lot salesman, vaudeville e n-tertainer n-tertainer and taxi driver . . . got into radio after serving in the Navy . . . while announcing announc-ing a wake-up shnw in Watjh- Arthur Godfrey ington, D. C., he shattered precedent pre-cedent with an unorthodox approach ap-proach he spoke his mind, thus originating the now flourishing kid-the-sponsor's-copy technique . . . he's been speaking his mind ever since with increasing success suc-cess .. . . Godfrey, who's married and has three children, stands 5 feet 11, weighs 175, has unruly red hair and mischievous eyes . . ; has an 800-acre farm in Virginia . . . hobbies are flying and sailing sail-ing .. . founded the GAPSALS (Give A Pint Save A Life Society) So-ciety) during the war and through it more than 600 pints of blood were contributed to the Red Cross ... his current schedule includes in-cludes CBS' five-a-week "Arthur Godfrey Show" and, on Tuesdays, "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," which moves to Fridays July 4, . . . often broadcasts the morning! show from his farm home, with the rest of the cast back in New York. Says AG: "I've realized a lifetime's ambition. I sit here at home, listen, to the radio and direct the show I'm listenine to." |
