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Godfrey Denies He Buzzed ^ Airport Tower in Fit of Anger nd T>tevi«ioH ■IGodiievMm'H 1 MVrolaVwn E h I Godfrey Says He's Proud of La Rosa,T lounced Him So He Could Earn Mor J Godfrey Won't Read Slop; cr And Fern Marja, in the same paper: “Of thousands of letters ... an ab¬ surdly small percentage backed God¬ frey and his whim of iron.” However, no matter what the news¬ papermen wrote, a huge and loyal le¬ gion of admirers has never swerved in its devotion to Godfrey, and has met every derogatory comment in the press with letters and phone calls of protest. Just when the public pressure was beginning to ease on Godfrey, came the Teterboro Airport “buzzing” in¬ cident, which for six months cost him his pilot’s license. Godfrey attempted to make light of the whole affair. On his morning show, he held up a news¬ paper and said: “Boj% did you see that? Ain’t that a beaut? ... I never thought I’d get headlines like that until I was dead . . . ‘Godfrey Cited As Wild Flier. Port Authority Files Charge.’ Roop-di-doo-dee rocky woe!” Newspapermen didn’t share his jol¬ lity. Columnist Ed Sullivan, a fellow CBS television star, wrote angrily: “The flippancies of Arthur Godfrey, in answering charges of reckless opera¬ tion of his DC-3 . . . are shocking. Godfrey is 50 years old—hardly the age for a hot-rodder . . . Such fliers are as dangerous as a drunk with a loaded gun.” Martin Kivel, in the News, referred to Godfrey as a “television entertainer, second only to Captain Video as TV’s most daring pilot.” And the Philadel¬ phia Inquirer observed editorially, “Godfrey’s reactions have been those of an immature person . . . Humility has its place, and it need not be