Word: camelback
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...proprietors of Arizona's luxurious Camelback Inn point with pride to their "mouthwatering food" and the hotel's location in the "dry. healthful, sun-blessed desert." They also talk loftily of their policy of accepting only "selected guests." Last week the National Association of Attorneys General, which had planned to hold its annual convention next month in the Camelback, decided to meet in stead in West Virginia's famed Greenbrier Hotel. Reason: the Camelback's slogan of "Selected Guests" turned out to be a euphemism for "Hardly Any Jews Allowed...
...site for the association in the past four months. Originally, the convention was scheduled for Mississippi. But Georgia's Attorney General Eugene Cook, president of the association, refused to invite U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell because of the Administration's stand against school segregation. So the Camelback was booked...
Then B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League protested that the Camelback took in only gentiles. Brownell let it be known that he would not stay there; so did some state attorneys general. That left the attorneys general little choice but to move...
...into the tomb, said some. But in a hut near the pit, Narayan's sole disciple, faithful Wamana Acharya, sat praying day after day. Last week, as the tenth day of the ordeal dawned, sightseers from all over New Delhi streamed to the burying place afoot and on camelback to watch Narayan's disinterment. Cymbals and harmoniums clanged and wheezed, hucksters did a land-office business...
...Countess Tolstoy heard her play in Moscow and invited her to her estate for the Christmas season. The count sent two sleighs to the railway station, one for Landowska, the other for the harpsichord which has followed her everywhere, sometimes on gondola and camelback. She returned again for the Christmas of 1909: "My music was a revelation to Tolstoy. I played for him; he talked...