Radio: Virtue Reigns

"Frank," ad-libbed Arthur Godfrey to Tenor Frank Parker on Godfrey's morning radio and TV show one day last week, "how many times do you think you ought to warn a man that if he's drunk on the job you'll fire him?" Replied Parker, "I think he should get a couple of warnings, and then that would be it.'' Said Godfrey: "I fired a man yesterday that I told the last time, which was the seventh time, that I wouldn't take it again."

The Great Friendly Face turned into the cameras to elaborate. The Godfrey company, he said, includes "two or three characters...

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