This week in TV Guide: May 14, 1955

It's been said that if you ever happen to find yourself in prison, the first thing to do to ensure your survival is to walk up to the biggest, toughest, meanest dude you can find in the prison yard and hit him as hard as you can. You may get the stuffing knocked out of you, but you'll have sent a message to the rest of the population that you're not going to take anything from anyone at any time. Now, I hope I never have to test this theory personally, but it occurs to me that the editors of TV Guide must have heard this advice themselves and taken it to heart, because this week see see them taking yet another poke at one of the biggest targets in the television world: Arthur Godfrey.Most of you are probably aware of Godfrey's spectacular success on both television and radio, and how it all came crashing down, beginning with his on-air dismissal of Julius LaRosa in 1953. By 1955, most of Godfrey's original company of regulars, known as his "Friends," had been fired for one reason or…