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...during the 20 months that he starred on Take It or Leave It ("Now you've won one dollar; do you want to try for two?"), and thinks it won its top rating because it was "just a crap game on the air." In 1942 he signed with Camel cigarettes and has been with Camels ever since-one of the longest tours of duty any performer has had with the same sponsor. At the end of the war, Bob had an idea for a replacement for his popular Thanks to the Yanks show: "I wanted a show that would...
Third Party. For such ideas, for his jokes (he estimates he has 25,000 stored in his head), and his mellow voice, Camel has paid Hawk approximately $2,000,000 over the past ten years. Bob says he is always careful to treat contestants on the Bob Hawk Show (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS), broadcast from Hollywood, with "real consideration. We never let contestants think we are laughing at them. We always pick out a third party, like a husband, and laugh about...
...camel-hair bathrobe, Mohammed Mossadegh sat up in bed and received Hjalmar Schacht, chief fixer of Nazi Germany's elastic currency. In Teheran at Mossadegh's summons to take a look at Iran's Scheherazadian finances, Schacht presented Mossy with a plan to stave off bankruptcy. Main feature: increase the amount of money in circulation by 20%. He also pointed out that there was no real hope of balancing the books unless Mossy could reopen the source of nine-tenths of Iran's national income: the refinery at Abadan. Schacht added bluntly: Iranians are "lazy," ought...
...Sopwith, the first lord of British aircraft and a big name in British aviation for nearly 40 years. When Germany's top World War I ace, Von Richthofen, was finally shot down, Canada's ace Captain Roy Brown, in a Sopwith Camel fighter was credited with the kill; when the Germans came back in 1940's blitz, Sopwith's Hurricanes bagged the lion's share of the bombers. And when the Germans opened up with their V-1s, Sopwith Meteors (Britain's first jets) went up to catch and shoot them down...
...apostles like Mark, Luke, John, Peter and Paul, and etch their images on the chalice. These holy men wear their hair and their platitudes long. Together with Author Costain's lumbering, pseudo-Biblical style, they reduce the pace of The Silver Chalice to the gait of a lame camel. Occasionally, the inferior doings are spiced up with superior settings, e.g., Nero's sycophantic court, a gladiatorial breakfast, Jerusalem's Dock of Atonement...