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Only Children Chattered. Only the children laughed or talked loudly, still resilient in suffering. One man carried a child pickaback (he stopped us and asked in good, crisp English what the news was from the German battlefront). Others carried children in baskets slung from shoulder staves. One enormous Bactrian camel bore a little child between its two humps...
...civilians. They wanted soldiers to have all the cigarets they needed. The merest shred of comfort came from S. Clay Williams, board chairman of potent R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. To a Senate investigating committee, he confessed that even he had to walk more than a mile for a Camel...
...them for a bottle of Astringosol," suggests a Gold Coaster. "Then mutter, under your breath of course, 'got any weeds?' Naturally, you accumulate a staggering heard of Astringosol, but I find it an excellent chaser for my Camel. This cigarette problem is nothing short of a gold-mine for the small drug companies...
...Camel-smokers walked at least a mile for any kind of cigaret; candy-eaters really lost weight for lack of sugar; gum-chewers glumly clumped their jaws on nonresilient chicle. Again & again weary clerks reminded shoppers, as nastily as they could, that there is a war on. Prospects for an early letup were gloomy...
Reported Dead. Maurice Chevalier, 54, straw-hatted, camel-lipped vaudevillian; executed by French Maquis. Son of a starving housepainter in Paris's Menilmontant slum, Chevalier first took the stage at II as a midget comic, played baggy-pants burlesque routines while he grew taller. In his teens, he replaced the dancing partner of Paris's famed Mistinguette, in World War I landed in a German prison camp, escaped as a Red Cross worker. After the war he grinned and pouted his way from French casinos to frothy U.S. cinema successes (Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant), thriftily saved...