Word: arabian
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...been offered a lead in a new Broadway musical based on The Arabian Nights. She was definitely interested -provided her new movie commitments did not get in the way. Her first film will likely be either a screen adaptation of W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions, or an original story with a far from surprising title: Daughter...
...also an American, a professional swimmer named Florence Chadwick, 31, from San Diego, Calif. There had been almost no build-up for her at all. Florence had not been able to pay for the trip and training expenses, so she had taken a job as a secretary with the Arabian American Oil Co. The company had paid her way abroad; Florence had kept in practice with after-work swims in the Persian Gulf...
Lonely Bahrein Island, off the east coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, is a hot, humid desert, inhabited mostly by Arabian pearl divers and British and American oil drillers. Its airport on nearby Muharrak Island is a stopover for Air France planes on the Saigon-Paris run, and French pilots don't particularly like it: the weather in the Gulf is treacherous, and within minutes fine flying weather can become a horror of sandstorms, torrential rains or typhoons...
...fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster that he is, he secretly replaces the court Bible with Arabian Nights, by which everyone swears as devoutly as before...
...house called Beacon Hill Farms on Catoctin Ridge in northern Virginia. With her are the children: daughter Pat, 7; Arthur Jr., 9; and 20-year-old Dick, the son of Arthur's first marriage. The farm's 700 acres are stocked with white-face Hereford cattle and Arabian horses which pay its running expenses. Godfrey, a licensed airman with more than 4,000 flying hours, commutes from New York in his Navion and twin-engine Beech planes, and always buzzes Beacon Hill before landing at nearby Leesburg. He spends about half of each week in the comfortable house...