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...very modern, with an apology: "I had Schiaparelli whip this up only yesterday; I had simply no time to find anything 18th century," Screen Star "Zizi" Jeanmaire (Hans Christian Andersen) turned up in a few strategically placed sequins, riding what might or might not have been an 18th century camel. Another girl came as a white rabbit, with neither explanation nor apology. Host Cuevas himself received his guests as a timeless "God of Nature" in cloth of gold, a scarlet cape and a headdress of gilded grapes and ostrich plumes in the full beam of a glaring spotlight...
Round the Bend. In a rented, 100-h.p. Auster monoplane scarcely bigger than his World War I Sopwith Camel, the Mad Major climbed to 500 ft. over the City of London. It was lunch time, and, as he could see through the upper frames of his bifocals, Thameside was black with people. Suddenly he sent the little silver Auster hurtling out of the sun, straight for Blackfriars Bridge. Girls screamed, bowler hats ducked, but, with inches to spare, the Mad Major leveled out, missed Blackfriars, and with wheels brushing the water, skimmed upstream towards Waterloo Bridge. Between the water...
...parish house was a small mud hut in Tamanrasset, 400 miles from the nearest French outpost. His daily meal was a miserable date-and-barley stew. Within a year he translated the Gospels into Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg, writing with an ink made from charcoal and camel urine...
Britain obliged; a thin red line of British-officered Oman levies marched up and set up camel-hair tents encircling the oasis; London sent a note demanding Turki's withdrawal. At this point, Washington, the perennial "third party" in the Middle East, stepped in, negotiated a secret "standstill" agreement. It lasted barely a few months: soon Saudi Arabia denounced Britain's "provocative actions" and Britain announced "complete freedom of action...
Palmorston Style. Fed up with the past humiliations in Iran and Egypt, the British were putting on a fine old-fashioned Palmerstonian display of Empire. R.A.F. fighters buzzed up and down the 750-mile-long camel tracks running into Saudi Arabia, searching out reinforcements bound for Turki. Jeep-borne Oman levies roamed everywhere, terrifying camel caravans. From a 40-foot-high Beau Geste-like tower of mud-brick reinforced with palm logs-containing storerooms for food, water and ammunition, and slotted for rifles-a young British major named Peter MacDonald was happily running the show...