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Luigi Lucioni has been called the most popular American painter since Gilbert Stuart. That is an exaggeration, but not a wild one. Lucioni has made outdoor Vermont his bailiwick, and no one paints it better. Working slowly and meticulously from nature, with tiny camel's-hair brushes, he mixes weathered barns, shady elms, blue-green hills and white steeples into canvases as crisp as a good salad...
...First, Camel (R. J. Reynolds), up .5% to 98.5 billion...
Slightly frayed at the edges, and beer-spattered, the CRIMSON's camel-hair welcome mat will again squat at its 14 Plympton Street doorstep tonight to greet latecomers to the fall competitions...
...Drury was also a tough cop, handy with his fists and afraid of nobody. He habitually put the pinch on, or otherwise harassed, such hearties as Murray ("The Camel") Humphries, the late Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Big Al's biggest brother. Once he even tried to pin a murder rap on fish-eyed, elegantly tailored Charlie ("The Gentleman") Fischetti, one of Al Capone's top three heirs. And he hauled in Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, Al Capone's business brains, whenever he felt displeased with...
...green-tinted pages ("easier on the eyes") of the first issue were crammed with puzzles, games ("Make Your Own Secret Code"), color comics ("The Story of America" by Historian David S. Muzzey) and reprints of such children's classics as Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump and Stevenson's Escape at Bedtime. Like everything sober-minded George Hecht has published, it looked like a nice mixture of his zeal for child welfare-and profits...