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Miss Lord, a 17-year-old Medford High School senior, is currently touring local colleges and has appeared on Monroe's "Camel Caravan" radio show...
...Service men got out. One walked up to the cop, chatted with him and drew him away from the door. The other slipped inside. A moment later, with the cop's back turned, a quick striding man, with his felt hat drawn low and the collar of his camel's-hair coat turned up, hurried out of the house and into the limousine. Then the two agents hopped in, and the Cadillac pulled away into the night...
John Clarke Whitaker, 61, likes to boast that he joined R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at the same time as another recruit: "Old Joe," the circus camel for whom Founder Reynolds named his cigarettes. Just out of the University of North Carolina, Whitaker started as a cigarette-machine inspector in 1913, the year Camels were put on the market. He worked up through manufacturing and personnel departments to a vice-presidency in 1937. Even when he became president in 1948, he never forgot that he started out in overalls, and he kept his door wide open so that...
There is a strange television affinity between crime shows and tobacco. Tracy's good friend, Ralph Bellamy, stars in Man Against Crime for Camel cigarettes; The Adventures of Ellery Queen (starring Lee Bowman) touts Phillies cigars; Dragnet (with Jack Webb) hawks Fatimas, and The Plainclothesman (Ken Lynch) works for Edgeworth tobacco. Like many things about TV, this fact puzzles Tracy: "I guess there must be some tie-up between smoking and tension...
...products of National Cash Register Co. are as familiar as Coca-Cola. National machines tot up their bills, figure the payrolls, keep charge accounts straight. They are operated by Eskimos in the Arctic Circle, by Fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa; they are packed by llamas in the Andes, by camel cart in Pakistan. And the machines ring up sales in shillings, drachmas, piasters, kroner, yen, francs and even Russian kopecks...