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...Tarah Bey M.D., Fakir and Mystic, had just finished his first act at Symphony Hall. It began with a display of long pins and longer knives which members of the audience examined for proper honing. After putting himself into what he identified as a cataleptic trance, Bey declared himself insensible to pain and asked those on stage to prove it by sticking the pins into...
...reputation in Manhattan two years ago, and then went to Europe with "a wealthy tycoon, a married man." Later, on the Continent, she picked up yet another rich companion and helped him buy champagne all over Europe. While at Deauville, she took up with an Egyptian named Pulley Bey, known then, according to the D.A., as "procurer by appointment to His Majesty King Farouk." Pulley took her home to Cairo as a tidbit for the king, but revolution prevented her meeting the girl-prone monarch...
...Arabs was the fact that, when chips were down in the U.N., the U.S. and Britain sided with France and against the North African nationalists. Emboldened by its victory, Paris locked up the remaining nationalist leaders in Tunis and Morocco, then put the squeeze on the reluctant Bey of Tunis...
Ungrateful Stooge. The French have no patience with the nationalist pretensions of 71-year-old Sidi Mohammed el-Amin. Unlike the Sultan of Morocco, who is a genuine descendant of the Prophet, the Bey is a semiliterate ex-Turkish functionary whom the French in 1943 hand-picked as their stooge. For him now to oppose proffered French "reforms" as insufficient they regard as rank ingratitude. Last week, no longer finicky about U.N. reaction, France's Cabinet dispatched a "stern and clear" ultimatum to the Bey: capitulate or suffer unspecified consequences, possibly deposition from his million-dollar job. Within...
Moslem sovereigns, the Bey of Tunis (1881) and the Sultan of Morocco (1912). Last week the French cabinet decided that it would "accept no [outside] interference in these questions which relate essentially to the national competence of France...