"People are concerned for your health and want you to come home," the announcer pleaded.
"Blip blop bleeeeep," returned the voice over the CBS radio-TV "simulcast" from 6,000 miles away. "Who wants me to week wawk come home bureeek?"
"The people," said the announcer. The bleeeeep was Arthur Godfrey amid the flora and fauna of French Equatorial Africa, where he was stalking wild game and piping an occasional short-wave transmission into 4,000,000 American homes. Before he left the U.S., Godfrey got FCC and French government authority to make his broadcasts, and rival RCA...
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