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By PHILIP CHAPMAN
LAST December, when young, personable, J bespectacled Robert Q. Lewis first took over as Arthur Godfrey's replacement, he decided that what he needed was a little vacation in the sun. Of course, the vacation couldn't be allowed to interfere with his work, which had to go on just the same.
But Robert, who -for some time now has not given up doing a thing simply because it was impossible, started looking at plane schedules. On a map of the United States he described a circle, with the center planted in New York and the circle itself set at four hours' flying time from Gotham.
I guess I've been a good hoy, Robei-t thought, because look where that crazy circle goes — smack through the middle of Miam,i Beach!
He had already engaged a terrace suite at the Lord Tarleton in Miami Beach before he realized that by the time he finished his evening show it would be too late to make the midnight flight from La Guardia to Miami's Intepnational Airport.
Or was it. . . ?
He called the Carey limousine outfit and asked them if they had a fast chauffeur. "I m,ean real fast."
They did indeed. He was waiting in a Carey limousine outside the studio at the precise minute that Robert came galloping across the sidewalk after his show, and they made the midnight plane. They made it every time, what's more, all through that mad commuting vacation. As a result, Mr. Lewis did not miss a single day of sun.
Now that he is once again replacing Godfrey while Mr. Tops of radio and television recuperates, it would be well to recall Robert's remark about his status as the Godfrey substitute. A reporter from the Miami Herald said to him, "You're a celebrity in your own right, Mr. Lewis, and now all of a sudden everyone is referring to you as 'Arthui* Godfrey's substitute.' Doesn't that get you down?"
"Certainly not," Robert said. "It's fine." Then he added thoughtfully, "Financially, it's delightful!"
To this, he now (Continued on page 73)
Robert Q. Lewis's Little Show, CBS Radio, M-F, 4 P.M., for General Foods; Robert Q.'s Waxworks, CBS Radio, Sun., 10 P.M., for Webster Recording. Lewis is seen regularly on The Name's The Same, ABC-TV, Tues., 10:30 P.M., for Johnson's Wax and Swanson's Foods, and currently seen and heard on Arthur Godfrey Time (see page 46, this issue). All EDT.
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