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...gorilla to meet Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, he stopped them short: "Don't let him near me-I mean it. Since I've been mayor of Baltimore, I've been bitten by a snake, clawed by a lion cub and kicked by a camel. . . Let's buy him and get him out of here...
...college first decided to walk 110 miles for a Camel five years ago, when the Zachary Smith Reynolds Foundation began pouring some of its Camel millions into education (TIME, April 22, 1946). The foundation offered the college the income from a $12,000,000 trust fund if it would move to industrial Winston-Salem. Then Charles Babcock, a Reynolds inlaw, offered a 350-acre site. Wake Forest took one look at its own puny campus (25 acres), decided to accept, and set out to raise the money on its own to build a whole new college from scratch...
Some Baptists and alumni protested hotly that the college was getting smeared with tobacco stains. They warned that if Wake Forest took the money, it might "lose its soul," might even find its name changed to Camel University.* But President Harold Tribble, a Baptist theologian from Charlottesville, paid no heed to the skeptics. He argued and begged at alumni banquets, civic meetings and Baptist groups. He pointed out again & again that the Reynolds Foundation had no intention of trying to run the college or change its name. Finally, half the necessary $15 million...
Cotton Caravan. For cotton-spraying time in the Sudan, a British inventor has devised a camel-borne spraying machine, which he demonstrated at the International Agricultural Conference in Sussex last week. The hand-operated pump fitted with two nozzles can spray crops in desert areas where no tractor-drawn equipment can be used. A dromedary named Joan (see cut) was drafted from the Chessington Zoo for last week's demonstration...
Rocky Jordan (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS), "long on nerve and short on talk," and played by Hollywood's George Raft, runs Cairo's Cafe Tambourine, where he matches wits with camel drivers, Moslem fanatics, suave villains, and beddy-bye blondes who murmur: "Be nice to me, Rocky." On the opening show the plot was a scramble for some nonexistent diamonds, nearly as silly as the dialogue...