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Dreamer-up and director of this big business is bald, bespectacled Ned Irish, a mild, well-mannered, colorless man of 35, who looks more like a high-school Latin teacher than the spittoon-bombarding type of promoter. Ned Irish never owned a camel's-hair coat. After graduating from Penn, he wrote college sports first for Philadelphia newspapers, then on the World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn...
Maurice Chevalier, camel-lipped love songster (". . . every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.") sang & danced for French war prisoners in Germany...
Brushes made from soft Russian sable bristles are plentiful. But stiff German-dressed South American ox bristles and "camel hair" (obtained not from camels but from Russian squirrels) are practically unobtainable...
Proofreader: "Slip 47. Jedha, the she-camel, was Jedhah on Slip 40." Lawrence: "She was a splendid beast." Proofreader: "Slip 78-Sherif Abd el Mayin of Slip 68 becomes el Main, el Mayein, el Muein, el Mayin, and el Muyein."Lawrence: "Good egg. I call this really ingenious."Wacky and whacky can also be spelled wackie, whackie, wackey, whackey, wacquey, whaquey, wakki...
...respected in Arabia even more than Lawrence was, Glubb Bey is now the rock under Britain's shaky Arab household. His quiet demeanor hides fighting anger which makes him deadly when aroused. Of all his colorful Arab nicknames Glubb prefers Rai el Boueidah (Guardian of the Little White Camel), which he earned for saving the life of a young camel during a skirmish...