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...Camel Driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...fine foi". Vice President Johnson to make friends for himself and the U.S. in his travels, but isn't entertaining a camel driver going a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...whose ears have often been perfumed by the wise and well-phrased utterances of the camel drivers of my native Iraq, I am pained by TIME's skepticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...paid the expenses of the camel driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...wise and well phrased were the utterances of the unlettered camel driver that some newsmen were skeptical. But State Department Interpreter Saeed Khan assured them that he was having a hard time matching his English translations with Bashir's Urdu eloquence. Many observers wondered if the camel driver had not been well coached for his journey; he tended to repeat his most popular lines in the different cities he visited. But what ever the explanation, there was no gainsaying that Bashir was a smash hit where-ever he went. And if a tentmaker could be a poet, many asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rubaiyat of Bashir Ahmad | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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