Word: aly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hampered by official red tape, Fielden hired to help him tall, twinkle-eyed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, who, as a translator for the Army, had become an adept red-tape dodger. By introducing a series of talks on "Widow Remarriage," "Untouchability," etc. he shocked the orthodox public into listening to his Bombay station. Objections were many and various. His assistant was kidnapped, mortified by being left in a bathing suit on top of a hill...
When Berlin's Dr. Faruqui beamed his short-wave newscasts directly into India, BBC really got busy. The doctor's rude comments on the British went down entirely too well with the natives. BBC sent a hurried S O S for Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari...
...made a new picture-Forty Little Mothers (M.G.M.). So had Comedian Benny-Buck Benny Rides Again (Paramount). This coincidence was the more curious because both comedians' last pictures were no great shakes. Cantor's Ali Baba Goes to Town left 20th Century-Fox like a visit of the forty thieves. Benny's Man About Town suggested that some Benny fans would rather listen free to than pay to look at their hero...
...Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, wants to talk over troublesome Indian problems with Mohandas K. Gandhi, the revered Mahatma will usually arrange to call on His Excellency at New Delhi. Not so obliging is another Indian leader named Mirza Ali Khan, better known as the Fakir...