Detroit Free Press - Friday, November 15, 1963
Godfrey Shows Detroit
By Bettelou Peterson - Free Press Radio-TV Writer
No one calls him Mr. Godfrey.
In the hotel elevator, at the parking lot, in the Fisher Building lobby, he's "Arthur," a good and well-known friend, and there's a handshake and a "How are ya" for everyone who greets him.
He flew to Detroit from Chicago, piloting his own plane, on his way to Rose City and a few days hunting with old friends, one Gen. Curtis LeMay.
"It's Curt's birthday and we try to celebrate by going hunting," said Arthur. "We haven't done it in a few years though."
Arthur was wearing a gift from Mrs. LeMay, a hand-some petit point vest covered with game animals and birds. Its warmth, said Arthur, was all he needed against Detroit's frigid weather.
For a man who inspired frantic phone calls Wednesday when rumors hit New York that he had died, Arthur Godfrey is hearty and healthily alive.
He sighed over the rumors; "I was beginning to wonder-It's been three months since the last one."
"If a quarterly rumor doesn't pop up," he added, sardonically, "I'd feel neglected. My wife, poor kid, used to get waked up in the middle of the night by people trying to check such stories."
Arthur did have a touch of........
BK NOTES: While I have the continuation of this story there is nothing there of importance though I will retype it here when I get a chance.
[Many thanks to Larry Haapanen for finding and sharing this artice]
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