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What the Lama Brought. Insubsequent issues, Editor Grosvenor has stretched his romantic, unscientific definition of geography to cover everything under (and above) the sun. To the Geographic, geography means kites and cats, ostriches and insanity, the Bagdad market and the Berlin airlift, eruptions of volcanoes, bathyspheres and the stratosphere, fishing, fine arts and the sex life of savages. Peripatetic, insatiably curious Gilbert Grosvenor has written 300 articles and taken 200 of the photographs. He was the first U.S. editor to use natural color photographs (a 24-page spread on China and Korea...
...10th Century, Arab warriors from Bagdad knifed into western India and founded Bagdad-ul-Jadid (New Bagdad). When more Moslem immigrants spilled through the fertile valley of the Indus River, the Princely State of Bahawalpur was born...
This month, the Amir of Bahawalpur rounded out 25 years of rule with a lavish silver jubilee celebration in New Bagdad (pop. about 50,000). At dawn a 19-gun salute (since independence he has added two more to the 17 guns allotted by the British) thundered over the city, and the show was on. Through the streets of New Bagdad snaked a morning-long parade of elephants, camels, jeeps and ambulances. The Amir rode in a Rolls-Royce...
Forthwith, Britain struck back. It instructed British aircraft to shoot down any Israeli planes encountered over Egyptian territory; it dispatched British reinforcements to Transjordan to protect Aquaba, Transjordan's port on the Red Sea and an important link in British communications to Bagdad...
Married. Emir Abdul Illah, 35, dapper, Anglophile regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq; and Fayza el Traboulsi, 22, daughter of a well-heeled Egyptian army officer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bagdad...