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...Italian train, although the Italian airline was delighted to have him. At the Rome Zoo, troubles mounted: Egypt's exiled King Farouk would not pose with Muggs. and a rogue elephant ate the chimp's shoes. In Cairo Muggs scratched the nose of a somnolent camel, while in Tokyo 70 reporters and photographers met him at the airport and 15 geishas fanned him while he napped. The Paris press ignored Muggs; the Japanese papers raved about him; Italian newsmen were both kind and critical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...ground, answered calmly: "Mrs. Loeb has no connection, direct or indirect, with the management of the concern. She has just the same right to send a telegram as my cook or anyone else. As for Bill Loeb, he is still galled because he can't get his camel nose in this tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Woltman v. McCarthy | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...digger (Robert Taylor) is out to find the tomb of the first Pharaoh to believe in only one God-the one influenced by the Biblical Joseph. But as the story goes on. the moviegoer gets an uneasy sense that he is being asked to swallow an ideological camel (with Eleanor Parker on top) about the Americans and how they alone shine like good deeds in a naughty world. ("I am afraid," sneers a callow young Menjou-type, obviously a foreigner, "in all the hustle and bustle [in America], the spiritual might have been somewhat neglected.'' True-blue Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Most of the new wealth is still skimmed off the top by sheiks, who live well and proliferate, raising sons who travel not by camel but by air-conditioned Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: HOPE for the MIDDLE EAST | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Camel: "Exaggerated claims, with gross wording; lack believability and insult my intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Easy on the Drawback | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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