Cloud & Sunshine

No matter which way he turned last week, Arthur Godfrey appeared to be in trouble. The Civil Aeronautics Board had given him ten days to answer the charges of careless flying made against him by the CAA. If Godfrey admitted thai: he had deliberately buzzed the control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, he was almost certain to be disciplined (by reprimand, fine, suspension or revocation of his private pilot's license). If. on the other hand, he could come up with no better excuse than the one he had used in his broadcast--that his twin-engined DC-3 was blown completely off its course by a 30-m.p.h. cross wind -- he could scarcely expect CAB to regard him as a skilled pilot. Godfrey was further embarrassed by the fact that the CAA had discovered that he was flying without valid CAA medical clearance (holders of privat: licenses are required to pass a physical examination every two years).

But on another front, the storm clouds over Godfrey were dissolved in a flood of financial sunshine. CBS reported that the programs relinquished by Godfrey's long time sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes had all been bought up by four other advertisers: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (Scotch tape), Toni Co., Pillsbury Mills and Frigidaire.

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