texts:
 won’t take this personally, but I am reminded of something my old uncle told me, long ago, back on the farm. He said. ‘What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig?You both get all over muddy . . . and the pig likes it. '”

<mask> took a leave of absence from FMCS in October 1950 to head the Wage Stabilization Board, a Korean War-era agency created in September 1950 to limit wage increases and help stabilize the economy as defense mobilization ramped upward. He was the agency's first director. He quit the Board in April 1951 when President Truman reconstituted the panel, and returned to FMCS. After departing FMCS in September 1952, President Dwight Eisenhower asked <mask> to lead a panel which would arbitrate labor disputes at Oak Ridge. <mask> agreed, and remained head of the arbitration panel until his death.Retirement, honors, death
<mask> published his memoirs, Review and Reflection: A Half Century of Labor Relations, in 1953. He received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College the same year. A partial scholarship was endowed in 1956 in honor of <mask> at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In 1961, the Dept. of Labor presented <mask> with its Award of Merit for his service in labor-management relations. <mask> died at his home in Washington, D.C., of a heart attack on December 27, 1967. At his death, AFL-CIO president George Meany noted, "He contributed as much to the cause of industrial peace and labor-management understanding as any man of his generation."<mask> was inducted into the Labor Department's Labor Hall of

masks:
Ching
Ching
Ching
Cyrus Ching
Ching
Ching
Ching
Ching


type: original

texts:
 Honor in 1989. Notes

References
"Bargaining Averts Atom Plant Tie-Up." Associated Press. June 14, 1948. <mask>, <mask>. Review and Reflection: A Half Century of Labor Relations. New York:  B.C. Forbes Publishing Co., Inc., 1953."<mask> Due to Head Atom Labor Panel." United Press International. May 24, 1953. "<mask> Honored At 85." New York Times. May 21, 1961. "<mask> Made WLB Member."New York Times. November 11, 1942. "C.S<mask> Is Sworn In as Mediation Chief." New York Times. September 6, 1947. "<mask> Dies."New York Times. December 28, 1967. Dubofsky, Warren and Van Tine, Warren. John L. Lewis: A Biography. Reprint ed. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1992. "Labor Department Dedicates Hall of Fame."Associated Press. January 11, 1989. Loftus, Joseph A. "<mask> Named Head of New Wage Unit." New York Times. October 11, 1950. Loftus, Joseph A."<mask> Quits Post In Pay Stabilizing." New York Times. April 21, 1951. Loftus, Joseph A. "Lewis, Here, Shuns Mediation In Coal." New York Times. November 11, 1949.Loftus, Joseph A. "<mask>man, <mask> to Review Strikes." New York Times. October 25, 1949. Marcus, Maeva. Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.Nelson, Daniel. American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900-1941. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988. "Nine Honored At Bowdoin." New York Times. June 21, 1953. "President Accepts Ching Resignation."New York Times. September 16, 1952. Raskin, A.H. "<mask><mask>:  Pioneer in Industrial Peacemaking." Monthly

masks:
Ching
Cyrus S
Ching
Ching
Ching
. Ching
Cyrus Ching
Ching
Ching
Steel
Ching
Cyrus S
. Ching


texts:
 Labor Review. August 1989. "Resigns From War Labor Board." New York Times.September 2, 1943. <mask>, Ralph T. "<mask><mask>: An Oral History Interview." New York: Columbia University Oral History Project, 1965. <mask>, Louis. "<mask> Assails Plan to Shift Mediation." New York Times. February 2, 1949.<mask>, Louis. "Coal Dispute Goes to President." New York Times. June 19, 1948. <mask>, Louis. "Union Postpones Oak Ridge Strike." New York Times.December 9, 1947. External links

1876 births
1967 deaths
American businesspeople
Directors of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States)
People from Kings County, Prince Edward Island
Dispute resolution
University of Prince Edward Island alumni
Canadian people of Welsh descent
United States federal executive department

masks:
Seward
Cyrus S
. Ching
Stark
Ching
Stark
Stark


texts:
<mask> (28 August 1930 – 17 January 2019) was a British actor. He is best remembered for playing Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981) over its entire run. The show's popularity resulted in <mask> and his co-star Don Estelle achieving a UK number one hit with a version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975. He later starred with Donald Sinden in Never the Twain (1981–1991), and his deep Welsh-accented voice was heard extensively in advertising voice-overs. Early life
<mask> was born on 28 August 1930 in Canning Town, East London, to Welsh parents. In 1940 they returned to their native village of Nant-y-moel, Bridgend. <mask> studied at Ogmore Grammar School and worked as a coal miner.He performed his National Service in Libya and Egypt, with the East Surrey Regiment, between 1950 and 1952. Following teacher training at Bangor Teacher Training College, he taught English and Maths at Leek in Staffordshire, and at a school in Elephant and Castle, south London. <mask> had become active in amateur dramatics and took a short drama course with a Kew theatre company. He became a professional actor at the age of 31 and began working at the Cheltenham Rep in 1961. Career

Television
<mask>' best known role was as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981). Modelled on similar individuals <mask> had met as a soldier during his National Service. "Bastards, real bastards some of them were.They knew it too, and took pride in it," he once said. Among his character's catchphrases was "Shut Up!! ", delivered as an eardrum-shattering military scream. Another phrase was "Oh dear, how sad, never mind", delivered in a

masks:
Windsor Davies
Davies
Davies
Davies
Davies
Davies
Davies


texts:
 dry, ironic manner, and used when others around him had problems. <mask> and co-star Don Estelle had a number one hit in the UK with a semi-comic version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975. Journalist Neil Clark, contributing to The Times in 2005, described his performance as the "definitive portrayal of a bullying and uneducated sergeant-major" and reported Spike Milligan was of the opinion that <mask>' role was "the funniest comic performance he had ever" watched. Other television roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series The Onedin Line (1971), a special branch detective in Callan (1972) and the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in Never the Twain (1981–1991), with Donald Sinden.In the field of science fiction television, <mask> appeared in the 1967 Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks as Toby; and was the voice of Sergeant Major Zero (a spherical robotic soldier in charge of 100 other spherical robotic soldiers) in the 1983 Gerry Anderson-Christopher Burr production Terrahawks. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1976 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. In September–October 1985, <mask> played the lead role of George Vance, a museum custodian elevated to the peerage, in the six-part BBC2 comedy series The New Statesman. This was based on the play by Douglas Watkinson and is not to be confused with the later sitcom of the same name. (Colin Blakely played the role of Vance in a pilot episode transmitted on BBC2 in December 1984.) <mask> also featured in the BBC comedy sitcom Oh, Doctor Beeching!, written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, as the Lord Mayor in an episode broadcast in 1997. Films
In the cinema, <mask> played major roles in two

masks: Davies Davies Davies Davies Davies Davies


texts:
 Carry On films, Behind (1975) and England (1976), in the latter again as a sergeant major.He played Mog in the Welsh rugby film Grand Slam (1978), and was a sergeant in the Highland Regiment in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973) with Jim Dale and Spike Milligan. In 1989, he revived the role of Sergeant Major Williams in a 30 minute Royal Air Force training film, Hazardous Ops. Voice work
<mask>' distinctive voice was heard in commercials for New Zealand's Pink Batts house insulations and confectionery ads for Cadbury's Wispa and for Heinz Curried (Baked) Beans. He also appeared alongside New Zealand rugby union coach Alex Wyllie in New Zealand advertisements for Mitre 10 hardware stores in the early 1990s. <mask> and Wyllie had worked together previously on the rugby-themed film Old Scores in 1991. In the 1970s, he read an edition of BBC Radio 4's Morning Story programme, and also narrated the audiobook for the Ladybird children's classic Treasure Island. He sang and voiced many characters in the Paul McCartney film Rupert and the Frog Song in 1984, and appeared in that year's children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman as three different characters (the Ringmaster, the Black Knight and an Ugly Sister).1984 also saw him audition to be the voice of the UK's speaking clock. <mask> was also the voice of Sergeant Major Zero in Gerry Anderson's Terrahawks. Personal life and death
In 1957, he married Eluned Lynne Evans; the couple had four daughters and a son. Eluned died in September 2018. <mask> lived in the south of France, and was a keen birdwatcher. He died on 17 January 2019, aged 88, four months after the death of his wife. His estate was valued at

masks: Davies Davies Davies Davies


texts:
 £883,000.Filmography

 The Pot Carriers (1962) - Police Constable
 Murder Most Foul (1964) - Sergeant Brick
 The Alphabet Murders (1965) - Dragbot
 Arabesque (1965) - Policeman in Car Crash (uncredited)
 The Family Way (1966) - Man in Crowd (uncredited)
 Drop Dead Darling (1966) - Radio Engineer
 Assignment K (1968) - Bill (uncredited)
 Hammerhead (1968) - Police Sergeant
 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) - Police Sergeant
 The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969–1971) - Chief Inspector Pyne
 Clinic Exclusive (1971) - Geoffrey Carter
 Endless Night (1972) - Sgt. Keene
 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973) - Sgt. MacKay
 Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974) - Bisset (uncredited)
 Mister Quilp (1975) - George
 Carry On Behind (1975) - Fred Ramsden
 Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) - Mr. Truscott
 Carry On England (1976) - Sergeant-Major 'Tiger' Bloomer
 Not Now, Comrade (1976) - Constable Pulford
 Grand Slam (1978, TV Movie) - Mog Jones
 The Playbirds (1978) - Assistant Police Commissioner
 Gabrielle and the Doodleman (1984) - Ringmaster / Black Knight / Ugly Sister
 Rupert and the Frog Song (1985, Short) - Rupert's Father / Father Frog (voice)
 Old Scores (1991) - Evan Price
 The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) - Chief Roofless (voice)
 The Willows in Winter (1996, TV Movie) - Commissioner of Police (voice)

References

External links

1930 births
2019 deaths
20th-century British male actors
21st-century British male actors
British expatriates in France
British male comedy actors
British male film actors
British male television actors
British male voice actors
East Surrey Regiment soldiers
English people of Welsh descent
Male actors from Essex
Male actors from


texts:
<mask> (July 5, 1945 – September 4, 2014) was an American author and disbarred trial attorney from northern Idaho, best known for serving as the defense attorney for Richard G. Butler, the founder of the white supremacist group Aryan Nations. He was a graduate of UCLA Law School and the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. On June 11, 2010, <mask> and another man were arrested and charged in connection with a murder-for-hire plot to kill <mask>'s wife Cyndi and her mother. He was found guilty and sentenced to a 50-year prison sentence. <mask> died in prison in September 2014, three years into his sentence. Notable cases
<mask> defended Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler in a 2000 lawsuit, which he ultimately lost. In another case, <mask> challenged Idaho's hate crime laws in defending Lonny Rae, a man who had been charged with malicious harassment for shouting "nigger" at a black referee who had injured Rae's wife, Kimberly (a reporter for a local newspaper), while trying to prevent her from taking a photograph following a high school football match.<mask> argued that the law breached the constitutional right to free speech under the First Amendment. Rae was cleared of the harassment charge but sentenced to seven days imprisonment for assault. In 2004, Rae's conviction was overturned on appeal, which was also handled by <mask>. <mask> also formerly worked as a spokesman for Prussian Blue, a female white supremacist pop music duo that was active in the mid-2000s. Defensive Racism
In 2005, <mask> published Defensive Racism: An Unapologetic Examination of Racial Differences, a book in which he described his views on the differences between the races of the world, and questioned the motives of people who

masks:
Edgar James Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele


texts:
 espouse political correctness. Arrest for conspiracy to commit murder
In June 2010, <mask>'s handyman, Larry Fairfax, alleged to authorities that <mask> was soliciting the murders of his wife and mother-in-law in a murder-for-hire plot. The FBI wired Fairfax for sound for a meeting between Fairfax and <mask> where the plot would be discussed.<mask> was thereafter arrested for conspiracy to commit murder. Subsequently, when <mask> was already in police custody, a pipebomb was found under his wife's car when she took it in for an oil change, which brought the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms into the case, and Fairfax was arrested. The charging document for Fairfax's arrest includes an admission that he manufactured and installed the bomb. Fairfax was given a 27-month prison sentence, and was transferred to home confinement in April 2012. Trial
<mask> was initially assigned a federal public defender, Roger Peven, when he was arrested. In July 2010, <mask>'s supporters put up a website to solicit donations to hire him a private attorney. By February 2011, they had raised over $120,000 for this purpose, and hired leading Denver attorney Robert T. McAllister, as well as local Idaho attorney Gary Amendola.<mask> remained incarcerated in Spokane, Washington, and Bonner County, Idaho while awaiting trial. He was relocated to Boise, Idaho, for his trial, which began on April 28, 2011. At the time of the trial, McAllister was in the process of being disbarred for converting the funds of a client to his own use. Prosecutor Traci Whelan questioned <mask>'s wife Cyndi regarding her marital troubles with him. In 2000, Cyndi had caught her husband looking for women in California on match.com; she posted her own profile with a fake

masks: Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele


texts:
 name and got him to reply, after which she filed for divorce. In her petition, she asked for numerous damages, including child support payments of $1,400 per month, two of the family's vehicles, and their horse ranch in Sagle, Idaho. Though <mask> and Cyndi were reconciled a few months later, the prosecution used this to argue that <mask> was unsatisfied with his marriage and had a motive to kill his wife because he wanted a new partner.<mask>'s computer had been seized with his arrest. Under questioning, Cyndi testified that her husband had sent 14,000 emails to large numbers of Ukrainian women between January and June 2010 as part of his research on a Russian bride scam centered in Florida. Each of the women had received at least 10 emails or 100 instant messages. The prosecutor argued that this showed that <mask> wanted a new partner, and had a motive to kill his current wife. The prosecutor introduced several love letters written by <mask> to his supposed Ukrainian girlfriend Tatyana Loginova from his jail cell while he was awaiting trial. These letters were signed by <mask> and were admitted as evidence in court without any objection from <mask>'s attorney. In one of the letters, <mask> expressed a wish to live with Loginova:

You could, perhaps, go to school in Panama, if you like, or summer school in Ukraine, or we could find you something to do – work at something, language instructions [sic]?Take care of our babies, make love to me, whatever will make you happy. You get to be near friends, family for half of every year. I get the same for three months each year. We both get to be warm for the winter, which can be like a huge, extended vacation each year. Our kids learn both Russian and English as they grow up. It

masks: Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele Steele


texts:
 sounds great to me. What do you think, my love?Loginova was later questioned over a video link from the Ukraine. The prosecutor argued that <mask> desired to be with Loginova in Ukraine, and thus had a motive to kill his wife. Conviction and sentencing
On May 5, 2011, after extended deliberation, the jury of eleven women and one man found <mask> guilty on all four counts described in the indictment: (1) use of interstate commerce to commission murder for hire, (2) possession of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence, (3) use of explosive material to commit a federal felony, and (4) tampering with a witness. In an interview after the trial ended, <mask>'s wife gave a passionate and critical assessment of the prosecution, judge and case elements. <mask>'s sentencing hearing was held on November 9, 2011, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. After making a statement in his own defense, he was sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment. He was interned in Victorville, California until his death.As a result of these convictions he was disbarred from the practice of law by the State Bar of California on January 30, 2014. Death
<mask> died in prison at the age of 69 on September 4, 2014, after suffering from declining health for weeks. References

External links
 ConspiracyPenPal.com (collection of <mask>'s columns and commentaries) and Biography of <mask>
 "Racists See Set Up In Arrest of Idaho Lawyer". SPLC. 22 June 2010. 1945 births
2014 deaths
Haas School of Business alumni
UCLA School of Law alumni
Place of birth missing
American people who died in prison custody
Idaho lawyers
Writers from Idaho
Prisoners who died in United States federal government detention
American white supremacists
20th-century American lawyers
Aryan

masks:
Steele
Steele
Steele
Steele
Edgar Steele
Edgar Steele
Edgar Steele


texts: <mask> (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname The Old Redhead. At the peak of his success, in the early-to-mid 1950s, <mask> was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a week, sometimes for as many as nine separate broadcasts for CBS. His programs included Arthur Godfrey Time (Monday-Friday mornings on radio and television), <mask>'s Talent Scouts (Monday evenings on radio and television), <mask> and His Friends (Wednesday evenings on television), The Arthur Godfrey Digest (Friday evenings on radio) and King Arthur <mask> and His Round Table (Sunday afternoons on radio). The infamous on-air firing of cast member Julius La Rosa in 1953 tainted his down-to-earth, family-man image and resulted in a marked decline in popularity which he was never able to regain. Over the following two years, <mask> fired over twenty additional cast and crew members, under similar disregard and questionable ethics, for which he was heavily attacked by the press and public alike. A self-made man, he was fiercely competitive; some of his employees were fired for merely speaking with ones he considered to be competitors, like Ed Sullivan, or for signing with agents. By the late 1950s, his presence had been reduced to hosting the occasional television special and his daily network radio show, which ended in 1972.<mask> was strongly identified with many of his commercial sponsors, especially Chesterfield cigarettes and Lipton Tea. He advertised Chesterfield for many years, during which he devised the slogan "Buy 'em by the carton", but he terminated his relationship with the company after he

masks:
Arthur Morton Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey


texts:
 quit smoking, five years before he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1959. He later became a prominent spokesman for the tobacco control movement. Early life

<mask> was born in Manhattan in 1903. His mother, Kathryn Morton <mask>, was from a well-to-do Oswego, New York, family which disapproved of her marriage to an older Englishman, <mask>'s father, <mask> <mask>. The senior <mask> was a sportswriter and considered an expert on surrey and hackney horses, but the advent of the automobile devastated the family's finances. By 1915, when <mask> was 12, the family had moved to Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.<mask> dropped out after a year at Hasbrouck Heights High School. <mask>, the eldest of five children, had tried to help his family survive by working before and after school, but at age 14 left home to ease the financial burden on the family. By 15 he was a civilian typist at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and enlisted in the Navy by lying about his age two years later. <mask>'s father was something of a "free thinker" by the standards of the era. He did not disdain organized religion but insisted that his children explore all faiths before deciding for themselves which to embrace. Their childhood friends included Catholic, Jewish and every kind of Protestant playmates. The senior <mask> was friends with the Vanderbilts, but was as likely to spend his time talking with the shoeshine man or the hotdog vendor about issues of the day.In the book Genius in the Family (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1962), written about their mother by <mask>'s youngest sister, Dorothy Gene (who preferred to be called "Jean"), with the help of their sister, Kathy, it was reported that the angriest they ever

masks:
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur
Arthur Hanbury
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur
Godfrey
Arthur
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey


texts: saw their father was when a man on the ferry declared the Ku Klux Klan a civic organization vital to the good of the community. They rode the ferry back and forth three times, with their father arguing with the man that the Klan was a bunch of "Blasted, bigoted fools, led 'round by the nose!" <mask>'s mother, Kathryn, was a gifted artist and composer whose aspirations to fame were laid aside to take care of her family after her husband, <mask> or "Darl'", died. Her creativity enabled the family to get through some very hard times. She played the piano to accompany silent movies, made jams and jellies, crocheted bedspreads, and even cut off and sold her floor length hair, as it was extremely difficult for a woman of her "class" to find work without violating social mores of the time. The one household item that was never sold or turned into firewood was the piano, and she believed at least some of her children would succeed in show business.In her later years some of her compositions were performed by symphony orchestras in Canada, which earned her a mention in Time. In 1958, at the age of 78, her sauciness made her a big hit with the audience when she appeared on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life. She died of cancer in 1968 at a nursing home in a suburb north of Chicago. <mask> served in the United States Navy from 1920 to 1924 as a radio operator on naval destroyers, but returned home to care for the family after his father's death. Additional radio training came during <mask>'s service in the Coast Guard from 1927 to 1930. He passed a stringent qualifying examination and was admitted to the prestigious Radio Materiel School at the Naval Research Laboratory, graduating in

masks: Godfrey Arthur Godfrey Godfrey


texts:
 1929. During a Coast Guard stint in Baltimore he appeared, on October 5 of that year, in a local talent show broadcast and became popular enough to land his own brief weekly program.Radio

On leaving the Coast Guard, <mask> became a radio announcer for Baltimore station WFBR (now WJZ (AM)), then moved to Washington, D.C., to become a staff announcer for NBC-owned station WRC the same year. He remained there until 1934. Recovering from a near-fatal automobile accident en route to a flying lesson in 1931 (he was already an avid flyer), he decided to listen closely to the radio and realized that the stiff, formal style then used by announcers could not connect with the average radio listener. The announcers spoke in stentorian tones, as if giving a formal speech to a crowd and not communicating on a personal level. <mask> vowed that when he returned to the airwaves, he would affect a relaxed, informal style as if he were talking to just one person. He also used that style to do his own commercials and became a regional star. Over time, he added wisecracks to his commercials and would kid the sponsors, a risky move that offended advertising agency executives whose staff worked on the commercial scripts.Nonetheless, <mask>'s antics quickly gained acceptance when his sponsors discovered their sales actually increased after <mask>'s added jokes. At times, he would read an ad agency script on television as he mockingly rolled his eyes, used a sarcastic tone of voice or added his own wisecracks. Since the sponsors approved, given their added sales, the agencies were powerless to stop him. In addition to announcing, <mask> sang and played the ukulele. In 1934 he became a freelance

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts: entertainer, but eventually based himself on a daily show titled Sundial on CBS-owned station WJSV (later WTOP and now WFED) in Washington. <mask> was the station's morning disc jockey, playing records, delivering commercials (often with tongue in cheek; a classic example had him referring to Bayer Aspirin as "bare ass prin"), interviewing guests, and even reading news reports during his three-hour shift. <mask> loved to sing, and would frequently sing random verses during the "talk" portions of his program.In 1937, he was a host on Professor Quiz, radio's first successful quiz program. One surviving broadcast from 1939 has <mask> unexpectedly turning on his microphone to harmonize with the Foursome's recording of "There'll Be Some Changes Made". <mask> was eager to remain connected with the Navy, but found his hip injuries rendered him unsuitable for military service. He knew President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who listened to his Washington program, and through Roosevelt's intercession, he received a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve before World War II. He would participate in exercises around the Washington area. <mask> eventually moved his base to the CBS station in New York City, then known as WABC (now WCBS), and was heard on both WJSV and WABC for a time.In the autumn of 1942, he also became the announcer for Fred Allen's Texaco Star Theater show on the CBS network, but a personality conflict between Allen and <mask> led to his early release from the show after only six weeks. <mask> became nationally known in April 1945 when, as CBS's morning-radio man in Washington, he took the microphone for a live, first-hand account of President Roosevelt's funeral procession. The

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts: entire CBS network picked up the broadcast, later preserved in the Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly record series, I Can Hear it Now. Unlike the tight-lipped news reporters and commentators of the day, who delivered news in an earnest, businesslike manner, <mask>'s tone was sympathetic and neighborly, lending immediacy and intimacy to his words. When describing new President Harry S. Truman's car in the procession, <mask> fervently said, in a choked voice, "God bless him, President Truman." <mask> broke down in tears and cued the listeners back to the studio. The entire nation was moved by his emotional outburst.<mask> made such an impression on the air that CBS had scheduled him for his own morning time slot on the nationwide network before Roosevelt's death. Arthur Godfrey Time was a Monday–Friday show that featured his monologues, interviews with various stars, music from his own in-house combo and regular vocalists. <mask>'s monologues and discussions were usually unscripted, and went wherever he chose. Arthur Godfrey Time remained a late morning staple on the CBS Radio Network schedule until 1972. Two radio monologues proved to be audience favorites and were rebroadcast on several occasions by popular demand, and later on his television show. They were "What is a Boy?" and a follow-up, "What is a Girl?"With the skilled addition of sentimental music, both monologues captured the essence of what made parents love their children, fondly describing the highly varied personality traits of each child as the monologue progressed. Each monologue struck a chord with everyone who heard it. "What is a Boy?" in particular proved to be so popular that it was released as one of <mask>'s

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts: records, which he issued on Columbia Records (Record no. 39487) in the summer of 1951, with "What is a Girl?" on the B-side of the record. It peaked on the Billboard charts in August 1951, one of several successful records <mask> released between 1947 and 1952.<mask> was also known for sparking impromptu jam sessions on the air with the band, all of them first-rate musicians who could create an arrangement as they went. He would sometimes begin singing with his ukulele, the band falling in behind him. At other times, he would jump into a number sung by one of the "<mask>s" and continue it, encouraging solos from various band members. It was further proof of his insistence on spontaneity on the air. He began to play a baritone ukulele. Over time, tutored by the band's guitarist Remo Palmier, <mask>'s playing took a decidedly jazzy quality. Palmier, a top Manhattan studio guitarist, was also a respected jazz guitarist and the only one of <mask>'s musicians to remain with the show from its 1945 debut until the final 1972 broadcast.In 1947, <mask> had a surprise hit record with the novelty "Too Fat Polka (She's Too Fat For Me)" written by Ross MacLean and <mask>. The song reached number two in the US charts and its popularity led to the Andrews Sisters recording a version adapted to the women's point-of-view. In general, <mask> despised most of his novelty recordings, including "Too Fat Polka", his biggest selling record. <mask>'s morning show was supplemented by a prime time variety show, <mask>'s Talent Scouts, broadcasting from the CBS Studio Building at 49 East 52nd Street where he had his main office. This variety show, a showcase for rising young performers, was a slight variation

masks:
Godfrey
Godfrey
Little Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur Richardson
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey


texts: of CBS's successful Original Amateur Hour. Some of the performers had made public appearances in their home towns and were recommended to <mask> by friends or colleagues. These "sponsors" would accompany the performers to the broadcast and introduce them to <mask> on the air.Two acts from the same 1948 broadcast were Wally Cox and the Chordettes. Both were big hits that night, and both were signed to recording contracts. <mask> took special interest in the Chordettes, who sang his kind of barbershop-quartet harmony, and he soon made them part of his broadcasting and recording "family". <mask> was also known for extemporizing music on the show, grabbing his ukulele and launching into songs the band may not have rehearsed. He had insisted on employing musicians in his small orchestra who would be able to accompany him quickly and "follow" him as he sang. This resulted in impromptu jam sessions on some broadcasts, rarely heard on mainstream variety programs. Performers who appeared on Talent Scouts included Lenny Bruce, Don Adams, Tony Bennett, Patsy Cline, Lu Ann Simms, Pat Boone, opera singer Marilyn Horne, Roy Clark, and Irish vocalist Carmel Quinn.Later, he promoted "<mask>" Janette Davis to a management position as the show's talent coordinator. Three notable acts rejected for the show were Buddy Holly, the Four Freshmen, and Elvis Presley. Following his appearances on the Louisiana Hayride, Presley traveled to New York for an unsuccessful Talent Scouts audition in April 1955. After the Talent Scouts staff rejected the Orioles, they went on to have a hit record with their version of "Crying in the Chapel" (a cover of the song by Darrell Glenn, written by his father Artie, and a

masks:
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Little Godfrey


texts:
 subsequent hit for Presley as well). That success kicked off the "bird group" trend of early rock 'n' roll. <mask> was also an avid amateur radio operator, with the station call sign K4LIB. He was a member of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division.Television

In 1948, <mask>'s Talent Scouts began to be simultaneously broadcast on radio and television, and by 1952, Arthur Godfrey Time also appeared on both media. The radio version ran an hour and a half; the TV version an hour, later expanded to an hour and a half. The Friday shows were heard on radio only, because at the end of the week, <mask> traditionally broadcast his portion from a studio at his Virginia farm outside of Washington, D.C., and TV cameras were unable to transmit live pictures of him and his New York cast at the same time. <mask>'s skills as a commercial pitchman brought him a large number of loyal sponsors, including Lipton Tea, Frigidaire, Pillsbury cake mixes and Liggett & Myers's Chesterfield cigarettes. By 1959, total advertising billings from <mask>'s TV shows were estimated at an industry-high $150 million, almost double those of second-place Ed Sullivan. He found that one way to enhance his pitches was to extemporize his commercials, poking fun at the sponsors (while never showing disrespect for the products themselves), the sponsors' company executives, and advertising agency types who wrote the scripted commercials that he regularly ignored. (If he read them at all, he ridiculed them or even threw aside the scripts in front of the cameras.)To the surprise of the advertising agencies and sponsors, <mask>'s flippancy during the commercials  frequently enhanced the sales

masks:
Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey


texts: of the sponsor's products. His popularity and ability to sell brought a windfall to CBS, accounting for a significant percentage of their corporate profits. While his willingness to mock the scripted commercials provided to him by sponsors' ad agencies angered those agencies, the sponsors, concerned only with improving their sales, were happy to let <mask> tear apart those scripts (even physically on occasion). In 1949, <mask> and His Friends, a weekly informal variety show, began on CBS-TV in prime time. His affable personality combined warmth, heart, and occasional bits of double entendre repartee, such as his remark when the show went on location: "Well, here we are in Miami Bitch. Hehheh." <mask> received adulation from fans who felt that despite his considerable wealth, he was really "one of them", his personality that of a friendly next-door-neighbor.His ability to sell products, insisting he would not promote any in which he did not personally believe, gave him a level of trust from his audience, a belief that "if <mask> said it, it must be so." When he quit smoking after his 1953 hip surgery, he began speaking out on the air against smoking, to the displeasure of longtime sponsor Chesterfield. When he stood his ground, the company withdrew as a sponsor in early 1954. <mask> shrugged off their departure since he knew other sponsors would easily fill the vacancy. Eventually <mask> added a weekend "best of" program culled from the week's Arthur Godfrey Time, known as Arthur Godfrey Digest. He began to veer away from interviewing stars in favor of a small group of regular performers that became known as the "Little Godfreys". Many of these artists were relatively obscure, but


texts: were given colossal national exposure, some of them former Talent Scouts winners, including Hawaiian vocalist Haleloke, veteran Irish tenor Frank Parker, Marion Marlowe and Julius LaRosa, who was in the Navy when <mask>, doing his annual Naval reserve duty, discovered the young singer.He subsequently invited him on the show as a guest, offering him a job upon his discharge. LaRosa joined the cast in 1951 and became a favorite with <mask>'s immense audience, who also saw him on the prime-time weekly show Arthur Godfrey and his Friends. <mask> also had a regular announcer-foil on the show, Tony Marvin. <mask> preferred his performers not to use personal managers or agents, but often had his staff represent the artists if they were doing personal appearances, which allowed him considerable control over their careers and incomes. In 1953, after LaRosa hired an agent, <mask> was so angry that he fired him on the air. <mask> was one of the busiest men in the entertainment industry, often presiding over several daytime and evening radio and TV shows simultaneously. (Even busier was Robert Q. Lewis, who hosted Arthur Godfrey Time whenever <mask> was absent, adding to his own tight schedule.)Both <mask> and Lewis made commercial recordings for Columbia Records, often featuring the "Little Godfreys" in various combinations. In addition to the "Too Fat Polka", these included "Candy and Cake"; "Dance Me Loose". "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover"; "Slap 'Er Down Again, Paw"; "Slow Poke"; and "The Thing". In 1951 <mask> also narrated a nostalgic movie documentary, Fifty Years Before Your Eyes, produced for Warner Brothers by silent-film anthologist Robert Youngson. <mask> had been in pain

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts:
 since the 1931 car crash that damaged his hip. In 1953, he underwent pioneering hip replacement surgery in Boston using an early plastic artificial hip joint. The operation was successful and he returned to the show to the delight of his vast audience.During his recovery, CBS was so concerned about losing <mask>'s audience that they encouraged him to broadcast live from his Beacon Hill estate (near Leesburg, Virginia), with the signal carried by microwave towers built on the property. <mask>'s immense popularity and the trust placed in him by audiences was noticed not only by advertisers but also by his friend U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, who asked him to record a number of public service announcements to be played on American television in the case of nuclear war. It was thought that viewers would be reassured by <mask>'s grandfatherly tone and folksy manner. The existence of the PSA recordings was confirmed in 2004 by former CBS president Dr. Frank Stanton in an exchange with a writer with the web site CONELRAD. Aviation

<mask> learned to fly in 1929 while working in broadcast radio in the Washington, D.C., area, starting with gliders, then learning to fly power planes. He was badly injured on his way to a flying lesson one afternoon in 1931 when an oncoming truck lost its left front wheel and hit him head on. <mask> spent months recuperating, and the injury kept him from flying on active duty during World War II.He served during the war as a reserve officer in the United States Navy in a public affairs role. <mask> used his pervasive fame to advocate a strong anti-Communist stance and to pitch for enhanced strategic air power in the Cold War atmosphere. In addition to his


texts:
 advocacy for civil rights, he became a strong promoter of his middle-class fans' vacationing in Hawaii and Miami Beach, Florida, formerly enclaves for the wealthy. He made a television movie in 1953, taking the controls of an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Constellation airliner and flying to Miami, thus showing how safe airline travel had become. As a reserve officer, he used his public position to cajole the Navy into qualifying him as a Naval Aviator, and played that against the United States Air Force, who later successfully recruited him into the Air Force Reserve. At one time during the 1950s, <mask> had flown every active aircraft in the military inventory. His continued unpaid promotion of Eastern Air Lines earned him the undying gratitude of good friend Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I flying ace who was the president of the airline.He was such a good friend of the airline that Rickenbacker took a retiring Douglas DC-3, fitted it out with an executive interior and DC-4 engines, and presented it to <mask>, who then used it to commute to the studios in New York City from his huge Leesburg, Virginia, farm every Sunday night. Incidents
In January 1954, <mask> buzzed the control tower of Teterboro Airport in his DC-3. His certificate was suspended for six months. He claimed that the windy conditions that day required him to turn immediately after takeoff, but in fact he was peeved with the tower because they would not give him the runway that he requested. He later recorded a satirical song about the incident called "Teterboro Tower", roughly to the tune of "Wabash Cannonball". A similar event occurred while he flew near Chicago in 1956, though no sanctions were imposed. These

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts:
 incidents underscored the differences between his private life and public persona in the wake of the controversies that swirled around him after firing Julius LaRosa.Leesburg airport
The original Leesburg airport, which <mask> owned and referred to affectionately on his show as "The Old Cow Pasture", was less than a mile from the center of town, and local residents had come to expect rattling windows and crashing dishes every Sunday evening and Friday afternoon. In 1960, <mask> proposed building a new airport by selling the old field and donating a portion of the sale to a local group. Since <mask> funded the majority of the airport, it is now known as Leesburg Executive Airport at Godfrey Field. He was also known for flying a North American/Ryan Navion, a smaller single-engined airplane, a Lockheed Jetstar, and in later years a Beech Baron and a Beech Duke, registration number N1M. In 1964, he became one of the founding members of the board of directors of Executive Jet Aviation Corporation. Behind the scenes

When the <mask> show began appearing on television, some Southern CBS affiliates objected to the Mariners barbershop quartet. This group of four US Coast Guard veterans included two whites and two blacks.<mask> resisted criticism from network affiliates in Southern states and struck back. He noted that black and white troops were serving together in the Korean War, and he attacked critics including Democratic Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge. <mask>'s opposition to racial discrimination was longstanding, alluded to on his broadcasts. According to several people who worked either for or closely with <mask>, behind his on-air warmth and benevolent image was a volatile,


texts: egomaniacal and controlling personality. He insisted that his "Little Godfreys" all attend dance and singing classes, believing they should be versatile performers regardless whether they possessed the aptitude for those disciplines. In meetings with his staff and cast, he could be abusive, sarcastic and intimidating. CBS historian Robert Metz, in CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, quoted <mask> as having once told cast and staffers, "Remember that many of you are here over the bodies I have personally slain.I have done it before and I can do it again." Julius LaRosa corroborated this in an interview with writer Gene Lees:  “We used to have what we called prayer meetings. After the Wednesday night show, we would go over the show and start preparing for next week’s. Here is a verbatim quote: ‘Remember, some of you are here over the bodies of people I have personally slain, and I can do it again.’"  He also demanded, though there was no contractual requirement, that his cast members refrain from hiring personal managers or booking agents. He insisted his staff could handle all of that. Given the rise of the "Little Godfreys" from total obscurity due to their exposure on <mask>'s popular programs, no one felt inclined to challenge him. Despite his ability to bring in huge profits, most CBS executives who respected <mask> professionally disliked him personally, since he often baited them on and off the air, occasionally by name, even including CBS chairman William S. Paley.<mask>'s attitude was controlling before his hiatus for hip surgery, but upon his return, he added more air time to his morning shows and became critical of a number of aspects of the broadcasts. One night, he

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts:
 substituted a shortened, hastily arranged version of his Wednesday night variety show in place of the scheduled "Talent Scouts" segment, feeling that none of the talent that evening was up to his standards. He also began casting a critical eye on others in his cast, particularly LaRosa, whose popularity continued to grow. LaRosa incident

Like many men of his generation, Julius LaRosa, as well as other male <mask> cast members, thought dance lessons to be somewhat effeminate and bristled when <mask> ordered them for his entire performing crew. Metz suggested that <mask> instituted the practice because his own physical limitations made him sensitive to the need for coordination on camera. "<mask>", Metz wrote, "was concerned about his cast in his paternalistic way". <mask> and LaRosa had a dispute in the fall of 1953 when LaRosa, the most popular of the "Little Godfreys", missed a dance lesson due to a family emergency.He claimed he had advised <mask>, but was nonetheless barred, via a notice placed on a cast bulletin board, from appearing on the show for a day in retaliation. LaRosa went to <mask>'s hotel and attempted to discuss the incident, but after being rebuffed by <mask>'s assistants, he waited in the lobby. When <mask> came into the lobby, he reportedly walked past LaRosa as if he wasn't there and refused to talk with him. At that point, LaRosa, whose success on records had brought interest from top show business managers and agents, retained manager Tommy Rockwell to renegotiate his contract with <mask> or, failing that, to receive an outright release; however, such talks had yet to occur. LaRosa was also signed to Cadence Records, founded by <mask>'s musical director

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts: Archie Bleyer, who produced "Eh, Cumpari! ", the best-selling record of LaRosa's musical career. LaRosa later admitted the record's success had made him a little cocky.<mask> discovered that LaRosa had hired Rockwell in the wake of the dance lesson reprimand when he received a letter from Rockwell dictating that all future dealings with LaRosa would be handled through General Artists Corporation, Rockwell's agency. At that point, <mask> immediately consulted with CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton, who noted that <mask> had hired LaRosa on the air and suggested firing him the same way. Whether Stanton intended this to occur after <mask> spoke with LaRosa and his manager about the singer's future on the program, or whether Stanton suggested <mask> actually fire LaRosa on air without warning, is unknown. Soon after the firings, Stanton conceded "maybe this was a mistake." On October 19, 1953, near the end of his morning radio show — deliberately waiting until after the television portion had ended — after lavishing praise on LaRosa in introducing the singer's performance of "Manhattan", <mask> thanked him and then announced that this was LaRosa's "swan song" with the show, adding, "He goes now, out on his own — as his own star — soon to be seen on his own programs, and I know you'll wish him godspeed as much as I do". <mask> then signed off for the day saying, "This is the CBS Radio Network". LaRosa, who did not know what the phrase "swan song" meant, was incredulous when told he had just been fired, since he had not been informed beforehand of his termination and contract renegotiations had yet to happen.In perhaps a further illumination of the ego that <mask> had previously kept

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts: hidden, radio historian Gerald Nachman, in Raised on Radio, claims that what truly angered <mask> about his now-former protege was that LaRosa's fan mail had come to outnumber <mask>'s. It is probable that a combination of these factors led to <mask>'s decision to discharge LaRosa. <mask> very likely did not expect the public backlash that followed, a result of the incident running directly counter to <mask>'s solicitous, paternal image. The LaRosa incident was the beginning of an era of controversy that enveloped <mask>, gradually destroyed his folksy image, and diminished his popularity. LaRosa's was not, however, the only firing that day. <mask> also fired Archie Bleyer. In 1952, Bleyer had formed his own record label, Cadence Records, which LaRosa was contracted to; the bandleader also married Janet Ertel of The Chordettes.The focus of <mask>'s anger was the fact that Bleyer, while on hiatus from the show, had produced a spoken-word record by <mask>'s Chicago counterpart Don McNeill to be issued by Cadence. McNeill hosted The Breakfast Club, which had been <mask>'s direct competition on the NBC Blue Network (later ABC) since <mask>'s days at WJSV. Despite the far more modest following of the McNeill show, <mask> was unduly offended, even paranoid, at what he felt was disloyalty on Bleyer's part. According to <mask>, a meeting between Bleyer and <mask> immediately following LaRosa's dismissal, revealed Bleyer was unconcerned about the matter. He claimed Bleyer simply shrugged off the dismissal and focused on developing Cadence, which found significant success  with hit records by the Everly Brothers and Andy Williams. Bleyer himself never commented publicly on the rift with

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts:
 <mask>. LaRosa, on the other hand, was beloved enough by <mask>'s fans that they saved their harshest criticism for <mask> himself.After the firing, a conference was held by LaRosa and his agent. On October 21, with public animosity towards <mask> steadily rising, <mask> further complicated the matter at a press conference of his own where he announced the firing of LaRosa and Bleyer, citing their "outside activities". While praising LaRosa, <mask> added he felt that LaRosa had lost his "humility". The charge, given <mask>'s sudden baring of his own ego beneath the facade of warmth, brought anger,  mockery and a significant backlash from both the press and public. Almost instantly, <mask> and the phrase "no humility" became the butt of many comedians' jokes. <mask> later claimed he had given LaRosa a release from his contract that the singer had personally requested. <mask>, however, provided no evidence to support that contention.The firings continue

The Teterboro Airport incident in January 1954 kept <mask>'s image negative in the media. At the same time, he ended his relationship with Chesterfield cigarettes. After his 1953 hospitalization broke his smoking habit, he had concluded that smoking was not beneficial and very likely harmful, a total reverse from his earlier commercials. His once-friendly rapport with the company began to fade as he spoke out on the air against smoking. <mask> subsequently fired other producers, writers and cast members including Marion Marlowe, Lu Ann Simms, Haleloke and The Mariners. The integrated quartet (two members of the foursome were African-American) believed <mask> had caved in to the continued criticism from CBS affiliates in the South over

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts:
 their continued presence on the show. Pat Boone and Carmel Quinn joined the cast for a time.But any thoughts of curtailing the fired cast members' network-television exposure backfired somewhat when they continued to perform for <mask>'s substitute host, Robert Q. Lewis, who now had his own afternoon show on CBS. Occasionally, <mask> snapped at cast members on the air, including Tony Marvin. Other performers, most notably Pat Boone and, briefly, Patsy Cline, stepped in as "Little Godfreys". Cline, who had won top honors for her appearance on Talent Scouts, declined to become a regular, confining her appearances to a few guest spots. Eventually, <mask> did away with any regular cast except Marvin, bringing in performers for a stipulated period of time and, if they did well with his audiences, bringing them back at various times. <mask>'s problems with the media and public feuds with newspaper columnists, such as Jack O'Brian and newspaperman turned CBS variety show host Ed Sullivan, were duly documented by the media, which began running critical exposé articles linking <mask> to affairs with several female "Little Godfreys". <mask>'s anger at Sullivan stemmed from the variety show impresario's featuring fired "Little Godfreys" on his Sunday night program, including LaRosa.<mask> later dismissed long-time vocalist Frank Parker, an Italian-American known for his Irish tenor. <mask> had been told Parker made jokes about him during a Las Vegas appearance. In popular culture

As the media turned on <mask>, two films, The Great Man (1956) starring José Ferrer, who also directed and produced, and Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957) starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal, were inspired

masks: Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey Godfrey


texts:
 in part by <mask>'s increasingly controversial career:
The Great Man, adapted from a novel by TV writer Al Morgan, centered on a tribute broadcast for Herb Fuller, a Godfrey-like figure killed in a car crash whose genial public demeanor concealed a dissolute phony. Various parallels to <mask>'s life could be seen in the film, from his affair with the show's girl singer to his dicey relationship with the show's bandleader. The term "The Fuller Family" was a direct play off "The Little Godfreys". A Face in the Crowd creator Budd Schulberg maintained his story was actually inspired by contrasts between the public image and private personality of Will Rogers, Sr. Also, the film's protagonist, Lonesome Rhodes, with his combination of country singing and country storytelling, superficially resembled popular singer and network TV host Tennessee Ernie Ford. Nonetheless, prominent elements of the film, including the scenes when Rhodes (played by Andy Griffith) spoofed a mattress commercial on a TV show he was hosting in Memphis, were clearly Godfrey-inspired.The research by Kazan and Schulberg included attending an advertising agency meeting about Lipton Tea. <mask> was a frequent target for parody:
Actor and comedian Art Carney would frequently parody <mask>, singing one of his signature tunes "Candy and Cake" and imitating his laugh. As early as 1949, comedians Bob and Ray presented an obvious parody with the character of <mask> (voiced by Bob Elliott) who, in plummy, folksy tones, constantly ragged his announcer Tony (Ray Goulding, imitating <mask>'s announcer Tony Marvin). Tony, meanwhile, would incessantly answer every question with "That's right, <mask>!". In the 1969 film Cold Turkey,

masks:
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur Sturdley
Godfrey
Arthur


texts:
 Ray (not Bob) played another parody of <mask>, this time as folksy radio announcer "<mask>". Comedian Jerry Lester mocked him as "<mask>". The Joy Boys performed a similar satire of <mask> on their radio show, calling their fellow Washingtonian "<mask>".Satirist Stan Freberg picked up on Bob and Ray's use of the catchphrase "That's right, <mask>", and recorded a barbed spoof of <mask>'s show. "That's Right, <mask>" depicted the star as a rambling, self-absorbed motormouth and his longtime announcer (Tony Marvin, portrayed by voice actor Daws Butler) as a yes-man, responding "That's right, <mask>" to every vapid <mask> pronouncement. Fearing legal problems and noting objections from <mask>'s attorney, Freberg's label, Capitol Records, would not release it, to Freberg's annoyance. The recording was finally issued in a 1990s Freberg career retrospective CD box set. Following the Julius LaRosa episode, singer-songwriter Ruth Wallis, renowned for her double-entendre songs, recorded "Dear Mr. Godfrey", a country tune that implored him to "hire me and fire me and make a star of me." <mask> appeared on many major magazine covers including Life, Look, Time, and more than a dozen TV Guide covers. He was also the first man to make the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine.Despite his faux pas, <mask> still commanded a strong presence and a loyal fan base. Talent Scouts lasted until 1958. Allegations of anti-Semitism

Accusations of anti-Semitism shadowed <mask> during the height of his career and continue to persist. Eddie Fisher, in his autobiography, Been There, Done That, discusses the rumor:

<mask>. Singer, author of <mask>: The Adventures of an American Broadcaster (2000), rejects this

masks:
Godfrey
Arthur Lordly
Arthur Clofrey
Godfrey
Arthur Cofish
Arthur
Godfrey
Arthur
Arthur
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur J
Arthur Godfrey


texts:
 accusation, citing <mask>'s good personal relations with a number of Jews in the entertainment industry, including his longtime announcer Tony Marvin. As for <mask>'s association with the Kenilworth, the hotel did establish a "No Jews" policy in the 1920s, but abandoned it when <mask> acquired a stake in the hotel in the early 1950s. In the eyes of the public, the increasingly negative, and largely self-inflicted publicity <mask>, despite his ongoing popularity, had generated since 1953 no doubt added credence to the accusations.In fact <mask> was only a part-owner of the hotel and insisted that when he took that stake, he ended any discriminatory policies that existed. Further undermining Fisher's account, he appeared on Talent Scouts years before <mask> purchased a part interest in the Kenilworth. Dick Cavett, in an opinion piece for the New York Times (July 16, 2010), calls the accusations of anti-Semitism "...purest nonsense". Later life
<mask> was an avid hunter who teamed with professional hunters to kill big-game animals on safari in Africa, employing helicopters to gain close access to his prey. In 1959, <mask> began suffering chest pains. Examination by physicians revealed a mass in his chest that could have been lung cancer. Surgeons discovered cancer in one lung that spread to his aorta.One lung was removed. Yet, despite the disease's discouragingly high mortality rate, it became clear after radiation treatments that <mask> had beaten the substantial odds against him. He returned to the air on a prime-time  TV special but resumed the daily morning show on radio only, reverting to a format featuring guest stars such as ragtime pianist Max Morath and Irish vocalist Carmel


texts: Quinn, maintaining a live combo of first-rate Manhattan musicians (under the direction of Sy Mann) as he had done since the beginning. <mask> also became a persuasive spokesman advocating regular medical checkups to detect cancer early, noting his cancer was cured only because it was discovered when still treatable. <mask>'s initial return to television occurred in a TV special centered on his gratitude to have survived what was by 1959 standards, an almost-certain death sentence. He sang, danced, did commercials and announced that he'd make greater use of the new videotape technology for the future. Despite appearing healthy on the broadcast, <mask>, fearing the after-effects of his illness would adversely affect his appearance, announced that he would resume the Monday–Friday Arthur Godfrey Time on radio only, ending the daily TV broadcasts.Long-time announcer Tony Marvin, with <mask> since the late 1940s, did not make the transition to the new program. Marvin was one of <mask>'s few associates who left on amicable terms, and went on to a career as a radio  news anchor on the Mutual Broadcasting System. The <mask> show was the last daily longform entertainment program on American network radio when <mask> and CBS agreed to end it in April 1972, when his 20-year contract with the network expired. <mask> by then was a colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve and still an active pilot. He appeared in the movies 4 for Texas (1963), The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), and Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968). He briefly co-hosted the 1960–61 debut season of Candid Camera with creator Allen Funt, but that relationship, like so many others, ended abruptly and acrimoniously; <mask>


texts:
 hosted at least one broadcast without Funt. <mask> also made various guest appearances, and he and Lucille Ball co-hosted the CBS special 50 Years of Television (1978).He also made a cameo appearance in the 1979 B-movie Angels Revenge. Post-retirement
In retirement, <mask> wanted to find ways back onto a regular TV schedule. He appeared on the rock band Moby Grape's song "Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot", a 1920s-pop-style piece from their album Wow. <mask>'s political outlook was complex, and to some, contradictory; his lifelong admiration for Franklin Roosevelt combined with a powerful libertarian streak in his views and his open support for Dwight D. Eisenhower as president. During his later years he became a powerful voice for the environmentalist movement who identified with the youth culture that irreverently opposed the "establishment", as he felt he had done during his peak years. He renounced a lucrative endorsement deal with Colgate-Palmolive when it became clear to him that it clashed with his environmental principles. He had made commercials for Colgate toothpaste and the detergent Axion, only to repudiate the latter product when he found out that Axion contained phosphates, implicated in water pollution.He did far fewer commercials after that incident. While <mask> was a great fan of technology, including aviation and aerospace developments, he also found time for pursuits of an earlier era. He was a dedicated horseman and master at dressage and made charity appearances at horse shows. He also found in later years that his enthusiasm for high-tech had its limits when he concluded that some technological developments posed the potential to threaten the environment.


texts:
 During one appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, <mask> commented that the United States needed the supersonic transport "about as much as we need another bag of those clunkers from the moon." The concern that the SST contributed to noise pollution, an issue <mask> was instrumental in raising in the United States, is considered to have effectively ended SST interest in the U.S., leaving it to Britain and France. (Cavett claims that <mask>'s statement also earned tax audits from the Richard Nixon-era Internal Revenue Service for the show's entire production staff.)Although <mask>'s desire to remain in the public eye never faltered, his presence ebbed considerably over the next ten years, despite an HBO special and an appearance on a PBS salute to the 1950s. A 1981 attempt to reconcile him with LaRosa for a <mask> show reunion record album, bringing together <mask> and a number of the "Little Godfreys", collapsed. <mask> had initially resisted the idea, floated by his agent, but finally relented. At an initially amicable meeting, <mask> reasserted that LaRosa wanted out of his contract and asked why he had not explained that instead of insisting he was fired without warning. When LaRosa began reminding him of the dance lesson controversy, <mask>, then in his late seventies, exploded and the meeting ended in shambles. The Arthur Godfrey Collection
Toward the end of his life, <mask> became a major supporter of public broadcasting, and left his large personal archive of papers and programs to public station WNET/Thirteen in New York. <mask> biographer <mask> helped to arrange a permanent home for the <mask> material at the Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland in early

masks:
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur Singer
Godfrey


texts:
 1998.The collection contains hundreds of kinescopes of <mask> television programs, more than 4,000 audiotapes and wire recordings of his various radio shows, videotapes, and transcription discs. The collection also contains <mask>'s voluminous personal papers and business records, which cover his spectacular rise and precipitous fall in the industry over a period of more than 50 years. Death
Emphysema, thought to have been caused by decades of smoking and the radiation treatments for <mask>'s lung cancer, became a problem in the early 1980s. <mask> died of the condition at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on March 16, 1983, at the age of 79. <mask> was buried at Union Cemetery in Leesburg, Virginia, not far from his farm. Personal life
<mask> was married twice. He and his first wife, Catherine, had one child.He was next married to the former Mary Bourke from February 24, 1938, until their divorce in 1982, a year before his death. They had two children. His granddaughter is Mary Schmidt Amons, a cast member on The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C.. Awards
NBAA Meritorious Service to Aviation Award (1950)
National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame (radio)
National Aviation Hall of Fame (1987)
Radio Hall of Fame (1988)
Peabody Award (1971)
Hollywood Walk of Fame ( Honored with three stars; Radio, TV, Recording)
Ukulele Hall of Fame  (2001)
 In 2002 <mask> was one of only three people named on both of industry publication Talkers Magazine'''s 25 greatest radio, and 25 greatest television, talk show hosts of all time lists. References

 External links

Arthur <mask> at Flickr Commons via Boston Public Library
Museum of Broadcast Communication: <mask>
Kinescope of an episode

masks:
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey


texts:
 of 'Arthur Godfrey Time' at the Internet Archive
WJSV Complete Broadcast Day on September 21, 1939, including Sundial with <mask>'', at the Internet Archive

76-page booklet, <mask> and His Gang (PDF)
Arthur Godfrey papers at the University of Maryland libraries

1903 births
1983 deaths
Radio and television announcers
Amateur radio people
Television personalities from New York City
American ukulele players
Peabody Award winners
National Aviation Hall of Fame inductees
United States Air Force officers
United States Coast Guard enlisted
United States Navy sailors
Vee-Jay Records artists
Deaths from emphysema
Radio personalities from Baltimore
Radio personalities from New York City
Radio personalities from Washington, D.C.
People from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey
People from Leesburg, Virginia
Military personnel from New York City
20th-century American musicians
American anti-communists
Military personnel from New

masks:
Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey


texts:
is a Japanese professional wrestler and former boxer and mixed martial artist currently signed to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). Yamamoto started his professional wrestling career under his real name in October 2002 with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he remained until 2007, when he signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In 2009, Yamamoto left WWE's developmental territory to join the promotion's main roster under the ring name . After his June 2014 release from WWE, Yamamoto returned to NJPW the following October, performing under the tweaked ring name . Following his departure from NJPW in late 2017, Yamamoto became a freelancer, and started working most notably for All Japan Pro Wrestling, who he signed full time for in 2020. Professional wrestling career

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2002–2007)
With a sports background in boxing and jujutsu, Yamamoto passed an audition held by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in September 2001 and began training professional wrestling at the promotion's dojo the following March. During his training, Yamamoto also travelled to Los Angeles to train at the local NJPW dojo.Yamamoto made his in-ring debut on October 12, 2002, facing Wataru Inoue in Korakuen Hall. Initially Yamamoto worked low card matches for NJPW, normally on the losing side to gain ring experience. On December 27, 2003, Yamamoto lost to Ryusuke Taguchi in a chance at a match on NJPW's most prestigious show, the January 4 Dome Show Wrestling World. Yamamoto participated in the 2004 Young Lion Cup where he defeated Hirooki Goto, Akiya Anzawa, and Hiroshi Nagao to earn a total of six points, not enough to qualify for the finals. Yamamoto also participated in the 2005 Young Lion Cup where he only won one match, defeating Yujiro. In 2006, Yamamoto participated in his first G1 Climax tournament, losing all four matches. Yamamoto teamed up with Manabu Nakanishi to


texts:
 compete in the 2006 G1 Tag League, defeating Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko to earn their sole victory in the tournament.On January 8, 2006, Yamamoto and Osamu Nishimura defeated Toru Yano and a returning Togi Makabe. Over the summer of 2007 Yamamoto began teaming regularly with Hiroshi Tanahashi forming a team called "New Japan Dragons", earning a match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship against the then champions, Bernard and Tomko, albeit in a losing effort. For the 2007 G1 Tag League Yamamoto teamed up with Takashi Ilzuka, while they defeated three teams (Hirooki Goto and Milano Collection A.T., Togi Makabe and Toru Yano, and Giant Bernard and Travis Tomko); the team ended up in last place. On November 2, 2007 Yamamoto wrestled his last match for NJPW, teaming with his mentor Yuji Nagata in a losing effort against Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano. World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

Florida Championship Wrestling (2007–2009)

In late 2007, Yamamoto was signed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to a full-time contract, which meant that he had to relocate to the United States. He immediately was assigned to WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), to undergo assessment and training in the "WWE style" of wrestling. Initially he wrestled as Mr. Yamamoto, then simply as Yamamoto.He briefly teamed with Sheamus O'Shaunessy under the team name The Movers and the Shakers. Later on, he changed his ring name to <mask>, before tweaking the spelling to <mask> <mask>. <mask>su is Yamamoto's father's given name. Brand switches (2009–2011)
On June 30, 2009, Yamamoto joined the ECW brand under the ring name <mask> <mask>. He had his first match that night, defeating Shelton Benjamin, although he lost a rematch to Benjamin on the July 9 episode of ECW. On the October 20 episode of ECW, <mask> defeated Zack Ryder to become number one contender for the ECW

masks: Yoshitatsu Yoshi Tatsu Yoshitat Yoshi Tatsu Tatsu


texts: Championship, although he failed to win the championship the following week against Christian. On the December 22 episode of ECW, <mask> <mask> defeated Jack Swagger to earn a spot in the ECW Homecoming battle royal, the winner of which would challenge Christian for the ECW title at the Royal Rumble.On the January 12 episode of ECW, however, <mask> was not able to win the battle royal when he was eliminated by Kane. At the Royal Rumble, <mask> competed in his first Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by John Cena. <mask> then formed a tag team with Goldust and the duo became the number one contenders for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship but failed in capturing the titles on the final episode of ECW. After the ECW brand was discontinued, <mask> made his debut on the Raw brand on the February 22, 2010 episode of Raw, where he teamed up with Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston to defeat The Legacy (Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase, and Cody Rhodes), after Orton turned on his partners. <mask> won a 26-man battle royal in the dark match to open WrestleMania XXVI by last eliminating Zack Ryder. In July 2010, <mask> had a few backstage brawls with The Nexus, trying to help John Cena get rid of them, which he did not. After months off WWE television, <mask> returned on the November 11 episode of Superstars, defeating Zack Ryder.On the November 29 episode of Raw, <mask> teamed with Mark Henry to defeat WWE Tag Team Champions Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater, after a distraction by John Cena. The following week on Raw, <mask> and Henry received a shot at the titles in a fatal four-way elimination tag team match, which also included The Usos and Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov. They were the first team eliminated. On the February 14 episode of Raw, Maryse and DiBiase were about to kiss, but Maryse instead kissed <mask>. On the February 24 episode of Superstars, during the match between

masks: Yoshi Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu


texts:
 Daniel Bryan and Ted DiBiase, <mask> came out and gave Maryse flowers, which Maryse hit DiBiase with, allowing Bryan to defeat DiBiase. <mask> failed at a chance to earn a World Heavyweight Championship shot in a 20-man number one contenders battle royal. On April 26, <mask> was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2011 supplemental draft.He only had two matches on SmackDown in 2011; a number one contenders battle royal for the World Heavyweight Championship and an "All I Want for Christmas" battle royal, the winner of which would receive one wish. Last feuds (2011–2014)

<mask> was a WWE Pro for the fifth season of NXT, also known as NXT Redemption, and his Rookie was Byron Saxton. On the April 26 episode of NXT, <mask> was attacked by Saxton after <mask> cost his match against Lucky Cannon. This caused tension between the two until the May 17 episode of NXT, when <mask> defeated Saxton. On the May 31 episode of NXT, Saxton was the second rookie eliminated. <mask> then began a feud with fellow NXT Pro Tyson Kidd, whose rookie was also eliminated, when Kidd broke <mask>'s toy figurine of himself and stole one of its legs. They traded wins during their feud, and <mask> reclaimed the leg by winning a Necklace on a Pole match on the July 26 episode of NXT.After the match, Kidd assaulted <mask>'s right leg, taking him off NXT for over a month. However, over the next few weeks, the Kanji word for "pride" appeared on the TitanTron to distract Kidd during his matches – a message from <mask>. He returned on the September 6 episode of NXT, where he debuted black tights emblazoned with Kanji characters and the Japanese flag, his small lock of blond hair dyed red and half his face painted. He defeated Kidd on that episode to end the feud. <mask> later explained that his new look and wrestling style were because he wanted to better portray Japanese culture, Japanese pride and

masks: Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu


texts:
 the aggressive style of Japanese wrestling. He said his face paint was a tribute to The Great Muta. <mask> stopped wearing his face paint to the ring by October 2011.From December 2011, <mask> formed an alliance with Trent Barreta to feud with Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks. Both teams played pranks on each other; <mask> was locked in a closet and Reks' hands were superglued to an Xbox controller. The feud ended when Hawkins and Reks defeated Barreta and <mask> on the January 18 episode of NXT. On the February 9, 2012 episode of Superstars, <mask> defeated Johnny Curtis. This would be his last televised victory in WWE, as he lost the rest of his televised matches in 2012 and 2013, even on NXT, which in August 2012 had become WWE's re-branded developmental territory. On the January 23, 2013 episode of NXT, <mask> and Percy Watson entered the NXT Tag Team Championship Tournament to crown the inaugural champions, but were defeated by The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) in the first round. <mask> continued sporadically wrestling on NXT throughout the rest of 2013 and 2014, but lost all his matches.In his final WWE pay-per-view appearance, <mask> unsuccessfully competed in the Andre the Giant Memorial battle royal at WrestleMania XXX in April 2014. On June 12, 2014, Yamamoto was released from his WWE contract, along with 10 other talents. Independent circuit (2014)
On July 29, 2014, Yamamoto made his first post-WWE match at BELIEVE 77. At BELIEVE 79, Yamamoto defeated Aaron Epic to win the SCW Florida Heavyweight Championship, his first professional wrestling title (which he vacated on March 28, 2015 due to his neck injury). On September 20, 2014, Yamamoto made his debut for Chikara, losing to Ashley Remington via disqualification, following outside interference from Juan Francisco de Coronado. Return to NJPW (2014–2017)
On October 13, 2014, at King of Pro-Wrestling,

masks: Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu Tatsu


texts: Yamamoto, billed as <mask>su, returned to New Japan, attacking Jeff Jarrett when he interfered in the main event match and, in doing so, helped Hiroshi Tanahashi defeat A.J. Styles for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.Yamamoto did not return to working under his real name due to being known better under the name <mask> <mask>, but he also could not continue working under his WWE name because of trademark issues, which led to the name's tweaked spelling. He was given the new gimmick of a "Bullet Club hunter", which saw him state that he had grown sick of seeing WWE and NXT employees wearing Bullet Club shirts and was now looking to eliminate the villainous stable from professional wrestling, starting with A.J. Styles. <mask> wrestled his return match on November 8 at Power Struggle, where he was defeated by Styles, following outside interference from Jarrett. Styles won after performing with his signature finisher, the Styles Clash. While performing the move, <mask> <mask> moved his head down before the point of impact with the mat. Instead of having his face slammed into the mat he took his weight, Styles' weight, and all of the force onto his neck.After the match, Jarrett hit <mask> with a guitar. On November 14, <mask> and Hiroshi Tanahashi announced they were forming a new tag team named "The World". The World was scheduled to take part in the 2014 World Tag League, but after their opening match on November 22, <mask> was forced to pull out of the tournament with a neck injury. On November 25, Yamamoto announced he had two broken bones in his neck, suffered presumably in his match with Styles when he botched the Styles Clash. Yamamoto had a halo installed in his skull, which he wore for the next three months. In May 2015, Yamamoto started training for a comeback at the Team Vision Gym in Orlando, Florida. On January 4, 2016, <mask> returned as part of the English

masks: Yoshitat Yoshi Tatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshi Tatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu


texts:
 announcing team at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome.On March 22, NJPW announced that <mask> would wrestle his NJPW return match on April 10 at Invasion Attack 2016, where he, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Michael Elgin defeated Bullet Club's The Elite (Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)) to win the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. Afterwards, <mask> announced he was forming a new stable named "Hunter Club" to oppose Bullet Club. However, neither Elgin nor Tanahashi accepted <mask>'s invitation to join the stable, which led to Captain New Japan stepping up as the first member of the new group. <mask> then debuted a new gimmick, where he began mimicking Triple H, which included him adopting the Pedigree as his finishing move. <mask>, Elgin and Tanahashi made their first successful title defense on April 23 against the Bullet Club trio of Bad Luck Fale, Kenny Omega and Yujiro Takahashi. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016, they lost the title back to Omega and The Young Bucks. On September 12, <mask>, upset with Captain New Japan's poor performances, announced a Twitter poll that would decide whether he would get to stay in Hunter Club.On September 25 at Destruction in Kobe, <mask> revealed the result of the poll and agreed to remove Captain New Japan from Hunter Club. This led to Captain attacking <mask> and aligning himself with Bullet Club. After starting a feud with Captain New Japan, now renamed "Bone Soldier", <mask> announced on November 5 that he had recruited Billy Gunn as his new Hunter Club partner for the 2016 World Tag League. <mask> and Gunn finished the tournament on December 8 with a record of three wins and four losses, failing to advance from their block, though <mask> managed to pin Bone Soldier in their final round-robin match. In April 2017, <mask> joined the Taguchi Japan stable. Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2017)
In

masks: Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu


texts:
 February 2017, NJPW sent <mask> to their Mexican partner promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) for a tour. He debuted for the promotion on February 17.All Japan Pro Wrestling (2017–present)
On September 12, 2017, <mask> made his debut for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), entering the annual Ōdō Tournament and defeating Tajiri in his first round match. Six days later, he was eliminated from the tournament in the second round by Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Kento Miyahara. On November 9, <mask> unsuccessfully challenged Joe Doering for the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship. He entered the 2017 Real World Tag League with Miyahara and had a good showing, winning five matches, but was one short of a finals berth. On February 3, 2018, <mask> and Miyahara defeated Shuji Ishikawa and Suwama to win the World Tag Team Championship. Calling themselves <mask>ken, their reign lasted only 22 days, as they lost the belts to The Big Guns on February 25. In April, he entered his first Champion Carnival, posting three wins to finish fifth in block B.Challenging Ishikawa and Suwama for the World Tag Team Championship for a second time, <mask> were defeated on August 18. On May 27, 2019, <mask> defeated Tajiri to win the Gaora TV Championship. <mask> signed full time with All Japan on January 1, 2020, with the contract being announced at their first show of the year on January 2. After nine successful title defences and a record breaking 587 as champion, <mask>su lost the Gaora TV Championship to Jun Kasai in a tables, ladders and chairs match on January 3, 2021. <mask> would compete in a series "Different Style Fights", innovated by Antonio Inoki, these worked matches pit professional wrestlers against martial artists and have a focus on a more realistic style of pro-wrestling. His most notable match came on June 26 where he defeated former Oriental and Pacific Boxing

masks: Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshitatsu Yoshi Yoshiken Yoshitatsu Tatsu Yoshitat Yoshitatsu


texts:
 Federation champion boxer turned mixed martial artist Yōsuke Nishijima. On July 22, he won the AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championship with Carbell Ito and Seigo Tachibana from Tajiri, Yusuke Kodama and Hokuto Omori.They were forced to vacate the title after Carbell Ito suffered a fractured wrist on September 28 but <mask> and Tachibana would regain the titles on October 16 with Takayuki Ueki. Other media
As <mask>, Yamamoto is featured as a playable superstar for the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011, WWE '12 and WWE '13 (as DLC) video games. He was previously featured in King of Colosseum II and Wrestle Kingdom 2 under his real name. Personal life
Yamamoto is a graduate from Kokushikan University with a degree in political science. Yamamoto is also married and has a child. Championships and accomplishments
 All Japan Pro Wrestling
 Gaora TV Championship (1 time)
 AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times, current) – with Seigo Tachibana and Carbell Ito (1), Seigo Tachibana and Takayuki Ueki (1, current)
 World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Kento Miyahara
 I Believe in Wrestling
 SCW Florida Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 New Japan Pro-Wrestling
 NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hiroshi Tanahashi and Michael Elgin
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Ranked No.78 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2010
 Pro Wrestling Riot
 PWR Championship (1 time)
 Uce Wrestling
Corona Premier Intercontinental Championship (1 time, current)

Mixed martial arts record

|-
|Loss
|align=center|0–1
|Hiroyuki Ota
|Submission (armbar)
|TFC – Titan Fighting Championship 3
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:44
|Tokyo, Japan
|

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Japanese male professional wrestlers
People from Gifu
Professional wrestling announcers
Sportspeople from Gifu

masks: Yoshitatsu Tatsu


texts:
<mask> (July 21, 1881 – March 28, 1947) was an American professional baseball second baseman and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1902 through 1917 for the Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, and Philadelphia Phillies. He also appeared in one game apiece for the Chicago White Sox and Braves while coaching them in 1922 and 1929, respectively. <mask> was born in Troy, New York. After playing for the local minor league baseball team for one season, Frank Selee, manager of the Cubs, purchased <mask>'s contract and soon made him his starting second baseman. <mask> helped lead the Cubs to four National League pennants, including two World Series championships. The Cubs traded Evers to the Braves in 1914; that season, <mask> led the Braves to victory in the World Series, and was named the league's Most Valuable Player.<mask> continued to play for the Braves and Phillies through 1917. He then became a coach, scout, manager, and general manager in his later career. Known as one of the smartest ballplayers in MLB, <mask> also had a surly temper that he took out on umpires. Evers was a part of a great double-play combination with Joe Tinker and Frank Chance, which was immortalized as "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon". <mask> was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1946. Early life
<mask> was born on July 21, 1881, in Troy, New York. His father worked as a saloon keeper.Many of Evers' relatives, including his father, brothers, and uncles, played baseball. Evers attended St. Joseph's Elementary School and played sandlot ball in Troy. Career

Minor league career
<mask> made his professional debut in minor league baseball for the Troy Trojans of the Class-B New York

masks:
John Joseph Evers
Evers
Evers
Evers
Evers
Evers
Evers
Evers
Evers
Evers


texts:
 State League in 1902 as a shortstop. Evers reportedly weighed less than , and opposing fans thought he was a part of a comedic act. Evers reportedly weighed no more than  during his career. Evers batted .285 and led the New York State League with 10 home runs. Frank Selee, manager of the Chicago Cubs, scouted Evers's teammate, pitcher Alex Hardy.Selee, also looking for a second baseman due to an injury to starter Bobby Lowe, purchased Hardy's and Evers's contracts for $1,500 ($ in current dollar terms); the Trojans were willing to sell Evers's services due to his temper. Chicago Cubs
Evers made his MLB debut with the Cubs on September 1 at shortstop, as Selee moved Joe Tinker from shortstop to third base. Only three players in the National League (NL) were younger than Evers: Jim St. Vrain, Jimmy Sebring, and Lave Winham. Three days later, Selee returned Tinker to shortstop and assigned Evers to second base. In his month-long tryout with the Cubs, <mask> batted .222 without recording an extra-base hit and played inconsistent defense. However, Lowe's injury did not properly heal by spring training in 1903, allowing Evers to win the starting job for the 1903 season. Lowe recovered during the 1903 season, but <mask>' strong play made Lowe expendable; Evers finished third in the NL in fielding percentage among second basemen (.937), and finished fifth in assists (245) and putouts (306).The Cubs sold Lowe to the Pittsburgh Pirates after the season. <mask> played 152 games in the 1904 season. Defensively, his 518 assists and 381 putouts led the NL, though his 54 errors led all NL second basemen. During the 1906 season, <mask> finished fifth in the NL with 49 stolen bases, and led the league with 344 putouts and led all second

masks: Evers Evers Evers Evers


texts: basemen with 44 errors. The Cubs won the NL pennant in 1906, but lost the 1906 World Series to the Chicago White Sox four games to two; <mask> batted 3-for-20 (.150) in the series. During the 1907 season, <mask> led the NL with 500 assists. The Cubs repeated as NL champions in 1907, and won the 1907 World Series over the Detroit Tigers, four games to none, as Evers batted 7-for-20 (.350).During the 1908 pennant race, <mask> alerted the umpires to Fred Merkle's baserunning error in a game against the New York Giants, which became known as "Merkle's Boner". Al Bridwell hit what appeared to be the game-winning single for the Giants, while Merkle, the baserunner on first base, went to the clubhouse without touching second base. <mask> called for the ball, and the umpire ruled Merkle out. NL president Harry Pulliam ruled the game a tie, with a makeup to be played. The Cubs won the makeup game, thereby winning the pennant. The Cubs then won the 1908 World Series over Detroit, four games to one, as <mask> again batted 7-for-20 (.350). For the 1908 season, <mask> had a .300 batting average, good for fifth in the NL, and a .402 on-base percentage, second only to Honus Wagner.<mask> drew 108 walks during the 1910 season, trailing only Miller Huggins. However, Evers missed the end of the season with a broken leg. Without Evers, the Cubs won the NL pennant, but lost the 1910 World Series to the Philadelphia Athletics, four games to one. <mask> agreed to manage the Navy Midshipmen, a college baseball team, in 1911, despite the opposition of Cubs' manager Frank Chance. He experienced a nervous breakdown in 1911; returning to the Cubs later in the season, he played in only 46 games that year. Evers indicated that this was a result of a

masks: Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers


texts:
 business deal that cost <mask> most of his savings. <mask> rebounded to bat .341 in 1912, good for fourth in the NL, and he led the NL with a .431 on-base percentage.Team owner Charles W. Murphy named Evers manager in 1913, signing him to a five-year contract, succeeding Chance. Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies
After the 1913 season, <mask> was offered $100,000 ($ in current dollar terms) to jump to the Federal League, but he opted to take less money to remain with the Cubs. In February 1914, after Evers signed his players to contracts, Murphy fired <mask> as manager and traded him to the Boston Braves for Bill Sweeney and Hub Perdue. Murphy insisted that <mask> had resigned as manager, which <mask> denied. <mask> insisted he was a free agent, but the league assigned him to the Braves. He signed a four-year contract at $10,000 per season ($ in current dollar terms), with a $20,000 signing bonus. During the 1914 season, the Braves fell into last place of the eight-team NL by July 4.However, the Braves came back from last place in the last ten weeks of the season to win the NL pennant. <mask>' .976 fielding percentage led all NL second basemen. The Braves defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1914 World Series, four games to none, as <mask> batted 7-for-16 (.438). <mask> won the Chalmers Award, the forerunner of the modern-day Most Valuable Player award, ahead of teammate Rabbit Maranville. Evers was limited in 1915 by injuries, and also served suspension for arguing with umpires. After a poor season in 1916, <mask> began the 1917 season with a .193 batting average. Due to <mask>' declining performance, the Braves placed <mask> on waivers at mid-season, and he was claimed by the Philadelphia Phillies.<mask> rejected

masks: Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers


texts:
 an offer to become manager of the Jersey City Skeeters of the International League that offseason. He signed with the Boston Red Sox as a player-coach for the 1918 season, but was released without playing a game for them. Not receiving another offer from an MLB team, <mask> traveled to Paris as a member of the Knights of Columbus to promote baseball in France. Coaching and managing career
In 1920, <mask> was slated to become head baseball coach at Boston College, however he instead accepted a last minute offer to join the New York Giants as a coach. He managed the Cubs again in 1921, succeeding Fred Mitchell. With the team struggling, <mask> was fired in August and replaced with Bill Killefer. The Cubs finished seventh out of eight in the NL that season.<mask> served as a coach for the Chicago White Sox in 1922 and 1923. He returned to second base in 1922, filling in for an injured Eddie Collins. <mask> played in one game for the White Sox as Collins recovered. <mask> was named the White Sox acting manager for the 1924 season, succeeding Chance, who was ordered home due to poor health. However, <mask> suffered from appendicitis during the season, missing time during the year, and the White Sox opened up a managerial search when Chance died in September. The White Sox replaced <mask> with Collins after the season. <mask> rejoined the Braves as a scout.As Braves owner Emil Fuchs sold manager Rogers Hornsby to the Cubs and assumed managerial duties himself for the 1929 season, Fuchs hired <mask> as a coach. Fuchs had no experience as a field manager, and so <mask> became captain of the Braves, directing the team during the game and dealing with umpires. <mask> and fellow coach Hank Gowdy played in one game in the 1929 season,

masks: Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers Evers


texts:
 coming into the bottom of the ninth inning on October 6, 1929. In the process, <mask> became the oldest player in the league for the year. <mask> remained a coach for the Braves under Bill McKechnie, who succeeded Fuchs as field manager in 1930, and served in the role through 1932. He continued to scout for the Braves, and then became general manager of the Albany Senators of the New York–Pennsylvania League in 1935. He resigned from Albany at the end of the season.Over his managerial career, he posted a 180–192 record. Managerial record

<mask> married Helen Fitzgibbons. His son, John J<mask>, Jr., served as a Lieutenant in World War II, assigned to the Pacific Theater of Operations. When his son was 11 years old, Evers bought part of the Albany Senators and gave him the stock. <mask>' brother, <mask>, and uncle, <mask>, also played in MLB. His great-nephew is Sports Illustrated writer Tim Layden. Though Evers and Tinker were part of one of the most successful double-play combinations in baseball history, the two despised each other off of the field.They went several years without speaking to each other after one argument. When Chance once named Tinker the smartest ballplayer he knew, Evers took it as a personal affront. Later life
Evers operated a sporting goods store in Albany, New York in 1923. However, Evers lost his money and filed for bankruptcy in 1936. The store was passed down to Evers' descendants. He also worked as superintendent of Bleecker Stadium in Albany and spent time teaching baseball to sandlot players. Evers suffered a stroke in August 1942, which paralyzed the right side of his body.He remained bedridden or confined to a wheelchair for most of the next five years. <mask> died of a cerebral hemorrhage in

masks:
Evers
Evers
Personal Evers
. Evers
Evers
Joe Evers
Tom Evers
Evers


texts:
 1947 at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, and is buried in Saint Mary's Cemetery in Troy. Legacy
<mask> retired in 1918, having batted .300 or higher twice in his career, stolen 324 bases and scored 919 runs. He frequently argued with umpires and received numerous suspensions during his career. His combative play and fights with umpires earned him the nickname "The Human Crab". Evers served as the pivot man in the "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" double-play combination, which inspired the classic baseball poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", written by New York Evening Mail newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams in July 1910. <mask>, Tinker, and Chance were all inducted in the Hall of Fame in the same year.The Merkle play remains one of the most famous in baseball history. The ball used in the Merkle play was sold at an auction in the 1990s for $27,500, making it one of the four most valuable baseballs based on purchase price. <mask>' role in Merkle's boner cemented his legacy as a smart ballplayer. <mask> is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:

See also

List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame
List of Major League Baseball player-managers

References

External links

1881 births
1947 deaths
Baseball players from New York (state)
Boston Braves players
Boston Braves scouts
Chicago Cubs managers
Chicago Cubs players
Chicago Orphans players
Chicago White Sox coaches
Chicago White Sox managers
Chicago White Sox players
Major League Baseball player-managers
Major League Baseball second basemen
National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees
New York Giants (NL) coaches
Philadelphia Phillies players
Sportspeople from Troy, New York
Troy Trojans (minor


texts:
<mask>  (8 October 1949 – 8 September 2019) was a British chemist, who was the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Master of St John's College, Cambridge. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 8 October 1949 in Rinteln, Germany, where his father, <mask> was commissioned as an officer. Both <mask> and <mask>'s mother, <mask> (née Pollard), were originally from Bradford in Yorkshire and had left school at age 14. <mask> had two older siblings, Graham and Gillian. Due to his father's postings, <mask> also lived in Lagos, Nigeria. <mask> was educated at Hereford Cathedral Junior School, and then Abingdon School from 1960 until 1967. He completed a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he was a student of Keble College, Oxford and Merton College, Oxford.Research and career
<mask>'s research largely focused on protein folding and protein misfolding, and its association with medical disorders particularly Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. By applying chemical and biophysical techniques, <mask> investigated links between protein structure, function, and disease. He is well known for his serendipitous discovery that ordinary proteins can misfold and aggregate to form amyloid structures. <mask> authored and co-authored over 800 papers and review articles, including 38 in Nature, Science and Cell, which have been cited over 100,000 times. his H-index is 153. <mask> held research fellowships

masks:
Sir Christopher Martin Dobson
Dobson
Arthur Dobson
Arthur Dobson
Christopher Dobson
Mabel Dobson
Dobson
Dobson
Christopher Dobson
Dobson
Dobson
Dobson
Dobson