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...built to lure in Negroes, had to be reorganized. Last week the well-established Sands took over the three-month-old, $4,000,000 Dunes on a ten-year lease at $750,000 annually, launched the Grand Reopening in a blaze of hoopla starring Frank Sinatra perched upon a camel...
...resplendent highlight of Long Island's summer social season, widening Automogul Henry Ford II and his petite wife Anne, togged for a make-believe Arabian night, met up with tall-on-the-camel Cinemactor Gary (Beau Geste) Cooper at a Baghdad ball in Southampton. For his resemblance to a sheik on his way to a shower bath, Arabian Knight Cooper copped first prize in the men's division for his getup's elegant authenticity...
...summer night in 1942, as Britain's Eighth Army reeled back on Cairo under the hammer blows of Rommel's Panzers, a devil-may-care Irishman employed by the BBC as a war correspondent padded out to the Pyramids on the back of a weary camel. In the far distance, the Tommies sang without a care...
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Ford agreement is the camel's nose under the tent. No one can doubt that the camel will work its way into the tent. Whether in fact the principle it has established produces the benefits anticipated, or starts the American economy on the road to stagnation depends in large part on the resilience of industry and its ability to react to new conditions...
...Arabia I saw many slaves of my race. There are slave markets in all the big towns there. The slave traffic starts at sundown. The big chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course...