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After his first major TV appearance, John Cameron Swayze eagerly phoned his wife Tuffie. "How did I look?" he asked breathlessly. Said Turner "Like you were dead." A bit dismayed, Swayze got rid of most of the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Eager Beaver | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Eager Beaver | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...budget be balanced next year? This week the Committee for Economic Development offered a businessman's program to keep the U.S. out of the red and put rearmament on a pay-as-you-go basis. A special tax committee headed by J. Cameron Thomson, president of Minneapolis' Northwest Bancorporation, urged that 1) Congress immediately levy $10 billion in new taxes; 2) the Administration trim at least $3 billion, and possibly $6 billion, from its projected $74 billion budget for fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Balanced Budget (Real) | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...yard freestyle--won by Berke; 2, Cameron (B); 3, Kinney. Time...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Swimmers Sink Brown Team For 6th Straight Win, 43-32 | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

...yard freestyle--won by Cameron (B); 2, Fouquet; 3, Kinney. Time...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Swimmers Sink Brown Team For 6th Straight Win, 43-32 | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

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