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...they said. "If this principle [of a civilian Secretary] is violated once," thundered California's William Knowland, "it will be a case of the camel getting his nose under the tent."† Ohio's Taft added two other points: General Marshall, almost 70, was not up to the grueling assignment; the appointment of Marshall was "a reaffirmation of the tragic policy of this Administration in encouraging Chinese Communism." Taft was talking about Marshall's mission to China in 1946 to effect a truce between the Nationalists and the Reds-an errand that, though doomed from the start...
...Libby Holman became the wife of 20-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, moody, eccentric heir to $28 million of the Camel cigarette fortune. Seven months after the wedding, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. Libby and a friend of Reynolds' were indicted for murder, then freed because of lack of evidence against them, and because there were indications that Reynolds had been thinking of suicide...
Bodyguards & Great Danes. Six months after his father died, Christopher Smith Reynolds was born, a sickly infant of only 2 Ibs. 11 oz. He got $7 million of the Camel fortune (Libby got $750,000), from which his mother might spend about $75,000 a year to keep him in a $450,000 house near Stamford, Conn., protect him with seven bodyguards and three Great Danes, and provide him with the best in doctors, teachers, clothes and travel...
...itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
...companies started making their own paper, and SEITA has been unable to win back the market. Last week's deal with Reynolds and Lorillard calls for 70% payment in barter (half in paper, half in miscellaneous commodities), and 30% in dollars. In some Paris circles, the legalization of Camel and Old Gold sales also called for a new snobbery in cigarette fashions. Said one young ady: "The only cigarette that suits my taste now is a Chesterfield...