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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...

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