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Married. Elizabeth Montgomery, 20, daughter of Robert Montgomery, veteran cinemactor turned television producer (Robert Montgomery Presents) and White House TV adviser; and Frederic Gallatin Cammann, 24, TV casting director; in Manhattan...
...Real America? Schuyler Cammann travels in the tradition of the scholar-adventurer, and his book, The Land of the Camel, cleaves to the best in its tradition (truthfulness, a sense of moral involvement, good humor) while shunning the worst (bad writing, political or sectarian tirade, excessive footnotarianism...
...Author Cammann was sent to a U.S. meteorological outpost in Inner Mongolia toward the end of the war. During the weeks of his stay, he took short trips in all directions from his base near a town called Shanpa to the tents and temples of the Mongols. Since he thinks they are a vanishing people, Cammann looks close...
...side, pull out the heart, squeeze it until animal is dead), and admires the tricks which Mongol farmers play on their reluctant soil to make it yield. Yet in a land where there is barely enough to eat, an undernourished girl may have silver rings in her ears. Cammann condenses his impressions of Inner Mongolia into a phrase: "Wealth in squalor...
Keen as he is, Scholar Cammann almost throws away one of the biggest facts in his book. He reveals, but only in passing, that most of the Mongols he talked to had never heard of America. They were astonished when they were shown America on the map. They had taken for granted that all strangers of European stock come from "West Russia...