Word: camels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shelves Full. In some ways it seemed almost like a prewar summer. Talk of rationing and shortages dropped to a whisper: after two and a half years of war, the hardest things to get were kleenex, Camel cigarets, and shirts from the laundry...
...those eight years than she ever had been before. With Husband Red Norvo she led one of the first great bands of the so-called swing era. She made many very successful recordings for the Vocalion, Columbia and Decca labels. She sang on such "obscure" radio shows as the Camel Caravan, with such "obscure" bands as Bob Crosby...
Wingate's axioms: shake a civilized white man out of the narrow trough in which he lives and he can beat the Japanese in jungles. Human beings can store up energy as a camel stores up water. Trained men can keep going for weeks with little food and drink...
...only has he been able to dominate the Camel programs (CBS, 10 p.m., E.W.T.) in his own most explosive and sidesplitting manner-with much credit to an understanding producer (Phil Cohan) and an admiring young foil (Garry Moore). Jimmy has also, after twelve years, made a sensational comeback in nightclub hilarity at Manhattan's Copacabana...
...centuries, a group of Mohammedans last week made the pilgrimage to Mecca (fifth religious duty of every True Believer) by air.* From Algiers two planes carried 25 Moslems to Mecca for Bairam, solemn annual festival at which every pilgrim sacrifices a ram, a he-goat, a cow or a camel...