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...television make-up he had been wearing, added a toupee to thicken out his sparse thatch, set himself to cultivating an air of friendly animation. In three years, these simple measures have helped to propel brisk, 45-year-old Newsaster Swayze into a bigger-than-TV prominence. His Camel News Caravan weekdays, 7:45 p.m., NBCTV) now has an audience of some 5,000,000, rates as one of the liveliest news shows on television. Each 15-minute program begins with Commentator Swayze's crisp delivery of he latest news bulletins. As he talks, the camera may switch...
Never Say No. His job on Camel News is only one of John Cameron Swayze's many current enterprises. An ex-newspaperman (Kansas City Journal-Post) and radio newscaster, he first made his mark in 1948, during the presidential conventions in Philadelphia. TV was then still feeling its way and cordially welcomed a commentator like Swayze, who was both durable and willing ("I never said no to anything"). From the solid success of Camel News, he moved on to become a permanent panel member of NBC's Who Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m.), where he dazzles...
Even the Flying Concellos, who have been flying through Camel ads as long as most of us have been walking--even the Concellos are thinking up new ideas. They now pull the pants off one of their troupe, as high off the ground as the 90c tickets...
Next day the troopers attacked again. Said Lieut. Albert Moses, commanding G Company: "We pushed off at 7:30 a.m., trying to get on the camel's nose. Finally we got a few men into some abandoned enemy trenches and had a good view of his positions, but we had one platoon badly chopped up. I was hitting them with 57-and 75-mm. guns, 81-mm. mortars, and 155s from the rear. But we just couldn't get 'em all, and we withdrew under heavy mortar fire. We had to leave some of our wounded...
Individual as well as collective U.S. valor ran high during the fight on Hwachon's camel's head. One sergeant who wanted to rejoin his unit in spite of a broken foot protested violently against evacuation. "It ain't broken, it ain't broken," he cried to a medical corpsman. "I'm going back up!" The corpsman applied pressure to the foot, moved the broken bones. The sergeant's face contorted with pain, but he uttered no sound. The corpsman shook his head, then ordered the fighter out of combat...