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...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 5,000,000, rates as one of the liveliest news shows on television. Each 15-minute program begins with Commentator Swayze's crisp delivery of he latest news bulletins. As he talks, the camera may switch...
Despite this handicap, week-end evenings see a sizeable caravan leave, the shores of the Charles for those of the Waban, where the lassies "would rather go out with Harvard men than almost anybody...
...CARAVAN PASSES (304 pp.) -George Tabor I - Appleton-Century -Crofts...
...small smile play on his face, as if to cue the audience to the right light spirit. In Bewitched, he swayed like a stalk of wheat, closing his eyes and opening his mouth to cue in deep ecstasy. From there he went to Duke Ellington's hot, blaring Caravan. Then he took off his tie, loosened his collar, and launched into a friendly little story of his life. His applauding fans seemed to like that almost as well...
Gaudiest of all the latter-day tramps was a loudly dressed, 2501b. giant named Charles Colfelt. A former Iowa bricklayer and California caterer, Colfelt breezed into Tegucigalpa at the head of a caravan of cars, trucks and house-trailers, and rented a whole floor of the Pan American Hotel. As president of the Honduran division of a Salt Lake City stock company called the "Pan American Mining and Development Co.," Colfelt announced that he had chartered a fleet of DC-3s to haul equipment upcountry, then began setting up drinks for all comers in the hotel bar. One suspicious investor...