Radio: Operation Godfrey

Some fifty women of assorted ages had been waiting all day at Boston's Logan Airport. When the plane landed, the women, joined by reporters, photographers, bystanders and a parcel of schoolchildren touring the airport, broke through the barriers and streamed out toward the blue-trimmed DC-3. On the plane's side was the neatly printed legend CAPTAIN ARTHUR GODFREY. Pilot Godfrey promptly took off again, leaving his flock of fans in a cloud of dust, propwash and indignation. Half an hour later he made another landing, taxied away from the crowd to the distant control tower, made his escape in the tower...

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