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...Babes in Bagdad (Danziger Bros.; United Artists), a film with a harem setting, is a case of boy meets girls. The ladies of the cadi of Bagdad's harem want to prove that women are the equals of men-and that each is thus entitled to a gentleman of her own. Led by Harem Beauties Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee and aided by the caliph's dashing godson (Richard Ney), who believes in limiting his affections to "one woman for all time," they strike a blow for Eastern feminism...
...months ago, the datelines read Teheran, Cairo, Bagdad. Last week the news was the same-riots, Reds, wreckings-but the place was new: Karachi (pop. 360,000), capital city of newborn Pakistan...
...human, after all. He could not bring himself to take blame for things that went wrong (like the wholesale sinking of allied ships off the East Coast early in 1942). He was a typical tourist, delighting in side trips to the antiquities of Egypt and Jerusalem, and flights over Bagdad and Damascus, even in the darkest days of war. And he had the G.I.'s souvenir-hunting spirit: at Teheran, he tried to "liberate" one of Stalin's desk-pad doodles, and was miffed when a Briton beat...
Born: May 2, 1935 in Bagdad's Palace of Flowers. Son of fast-living, wild-driving King Ghazi who died at 27, bashed against a light pole in an auto accident, after a turbulent, disappointing six-year reign...
Personality: Has a modest manner, a quizzical mind, a pungent tongue. Likes to box, wrestle, ski. At 16, wrote a Judo manual in Arabic, entitled How to Defend Yourself, which became an Iraqi army text and a Bagdad bestseller. So far has shown little interest in politics...