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questions like, ‘What did you do over the weekend?’ And he told us in a little closed-door session once in his office, ‘Don’t say, “Yes, sir” or “No, sir” to me.’ “When Arthur fired Julius La Rosa and the bad publicity started, he al¬ most completely reversed himself on this family business. We felt he was giving some of the cast just enough rope to hang themselves by permitting them personal appearances.” The Mariners still can’t figure out how they earned Godfrey’s displeas¬ ure. “In all our years with Godfrey, we missed only one performance. We were so loyal to the show that we never even hired an agent or a pub¬ licity man, like some of the others did. So we were totally imprepared to go out on our own when we got the gate. We still don’t understand his com¬ plaint that we were no longer mem¬ bers of the ‘team.’ ” Actually, The Mariners point out, Arthur Godfrey never hired them. They were on the CBS staff and had their own Sunday morning radio show in 1946, when Godfrey had an unsponsored half-hour radio show. Trying to build Godfrey as a network personality, CBS assigned The Mari¬ ners to his show. “We’re still hurt at the way God¬ frey treated us after eight-and-a-half years,” say The Mariners, “but we feel he did us a favor. We have theater and concert bookings from now imtil Between shows: Mariners relax in their dressing room at Philadelphia night club. the end of the year. We’ve been on Ed Sullivan’s show twice and have another date coming up. And we’re still making records for Columbia.” “We don’t want to run Godfrey down, because he did a lot for us. And all the things he did—the lessons, the firing, and the rest—were per¬ fectly within his rights. But we’re just wondering about that 20th Anni¬ versary show scheduled for next fall. He’s supposed to bring back on that show everybody he helped develop. Everybody probably will be on it except the people he fired. And they’re the ones he really helped to build!” Next Week: Haleloke. 15