Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1948)

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At Takoma Park Sanitarium, they tried to patch together his broken body. There were lacerations to the left arm, left hand, left leg and left side of the head. There were a fractured pelvis, dislocation of the right hip and fractures of both knee caps. There were weeks of stunned, pain-wracked silence broken only by the hushed voices of doctors and nurses. A pall of gloom descended upon Washington and its neighboring towns. Thousands of telephone calls jammed WRC's switchboard. Hundreds of telegrams and letters poured in . . . expressions of regret, some from "important" people, but mostly from just plain Godfrey fans. Hours, days, weeks . . . they drag slowly in a hospital room. Bones and tissues began knitting together. The healing process was under way. Slowly, he came up out of pain and shock . . . into an awareness of the warm affection and concern expressed by his new friends. He willed himself to recovery. Four long months after the crash, Arthur was at the WRC mike again . . . and, by letters, postcards and telephone, his unseen audience said "Bravo!" The old redhead was back and in the swing of things. True, there was a slight difference ... he had returned on crutches . . . but a cane replaced them before very long and in time even that ambulatory prop went the way of all firewood. The remaining mark of his terrible accident was a noticeable limp. Less obvious ... a nagging pain in his right hip . . . that, and a nervous irritability completely new to his personality. These after-effects bedevilled Arthur but he did his level best to keep signs of them hidden. 1932 and 1933 unwound their days from the spool of time and, for The Warbling Banjoist, virtually every one of those days was marked by a staggering schedule. He was heard over WRC (then the Red Network affiliate) and also, over WMAL (attached to The Blue), both being Washington outlets for their parent National Broadcasting Company. Both outlets had studios in the same building. Despite that fact, Arthur had to hop around in lively fashion to keep his program commit ments. A little master-of-ceremonies activity in night clubs and on the stage of RKO-Keith's theater didn't lessen the work-load. You'd think he was a network personality. The blow-up came on January 2, 1934 ... a day that began, as usual, at six in the morning. Arthur did his WMAL Breakfast Club broadcast until nine and remained around the studio, on call, until noon. He returned that afternoon to announce the Farm and Home program. Before filling that assignment, though, he rehearsed with bandleader Ben Bernie who, whenever performing in Washington, requested the redhead's services. Maestro Bernie's broadcast went over the net that evening with a repeat broadcast for the West Coast later on in the night. Scattered between the highpoints of that day's agenda were a few other scheduled programs that leaned on the Godfrey voice-magic. Arthur got through the day. At midnight, knowing he'd reached some sort of physical limit, he contacted WMAL's station manager and advised him he wouldn't, couldn't preside over next morning's Breakfast Club. Arthur was told that someone would pinch-hit for him. He mumbled his thanks, crawled home and slept. . . . Slept well into the next day ... so well, in fact, that he appeared at the studio only minutes before his 5:15 broadcast. Arthur, serenely rested and long familiar with the show's routine, was all set to carry on in his usual unruffled fashion. He made his entrance in an atmosphere of clicking stopwatches, scratching blue pencils, muttered cuss -words and utter confusion. Arthur's cheery "Hi'ya, people — " froze on his lips. The freezing was done by the station manager's frosty stare, or rather glare. In strictly uncomplimentary terms, Arthur's lateness was challenged. The tardy one retorted angrily. There was an exchange of insults. The manager shouted, "I don't like your attitude!" Arthur shouted back the well-known suggestion as to what the station manager could do with his job. Then he strode out . . . into the January dusk. He walked for hours. Now, an icy blizzard pelted him. The heat of his anger cooled considerably as he sat hunched and weary on a park bench. His thoughts became less chaotic and more dismal as he appraised the situation. Great guns! Had he actually quit? His mind's eye beheld a scene of ruin and desolation. It viewed the wreckage of his carefully-built career. what THREE LITTLE WORDS thrill every radio fan? the scintillating new Hollywood broadcast featuring George Murphy and Eddie Bracken. 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