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Small, shy, stooped like a tired schoolmaster, Glubb Bey (his Arab title) graduated first in his class from Woolwich Royal Military Academy. Son of a major general, he knew his war business, went to France in World War I as a sapper. There he received a chin wound which later inspired Arabs to nickname him Abu Huneik (Man with the Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to Mesopotamia; he has remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house...
Fight Camp was obviously inspired by the career of Madame Hranoush Bey, a onetime concert singer of French-Armenian extraction whose late husband was secretary in the Turkish Embassy, before he and Madame went into the fighttraining business at Summit, N.J., some 20 years...
...warship Admiral Graffs Bey ought to have fought till the end. If one of us is attacked he must fight till he is killed. It is disgraceful to run away or to kill oneself. Graffs Bey is a coward. Wallah! How do warships fight? Do they knock down one another or simply jump over one another...
...Street and Park Avenue to Hollywood. Probably no M. P. has ever taken so many Americans to tea at the House of Commons. Young Mr. Cazalet was also a champion tennis and racquets player in his student days, is one of the only Britons who can give Egyptian Amr Bey a run for his money in squash racquets, can still give a tennis game to Helen Wills. He has spoken many times on that question so important to the U. S., the Jewish refugee problem, and last week, while stanch Government supporters cheered and cried, "Hear! Hear!" and the Opposition...
...week's end Mr. MacDonald shuttled to the hotel to see the ailing Ragheb Bey Nashashibi. By then the Defense Leader was so miserable that he sent out word that he was sound asleep. To open his eyes, Mr. MacDonald sent him a bunch of big red roses...