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Former Queen Narriman, 18, wife of exiled King Farouk of Egypt, had no sooner left him to mind the baby on the Isle of Capri, than reporters began gossiping about a divorce. A Cairo newspaper reported that Narriman's family were trying to find a way for the Queen and her infant son King Fuad II to return to Egypt to give encouragement to the monarchists. In Lausanne, Switzerland, where Narriman had gone with her mother for some medical treatment, the Queen was said to have consulted lawyers about a divorce. At week's end, as Narriman returned...
...Milan's Corriere delta Sera, was fed rich scoops of news on the silver spoon of favoritism. When the war began to turn against the Axis, so did Malaparte's pen. He was punished with brief confinement in a Rome prison, then allowed to retire to a Capri villa; there he was liberated by the Allied forces. Malaparte promptly put all his inside information about high Fascist circles at the disposal of the Allied command, and was rewarded with a commission as liaison officer with the U.S. Fifth Army...
...members of the Harvard class of 1936, only 300 reported, 200 live incommunicado on Capri, and there never was any accounting for the remaining 400. Geographically, we have dispersed all over the country since graduation: Boston, East Boston, Melrose, Newton Center, Newton Falls. Whereas only one Eli went Communist, our entire class, as everyone knows, is Communist...
...father, deposed King Farouk, summoned 100 waiting newsmen at Capri's sumptuous Eden Paradiso Hotel, pointedly cradled his seven-month-old son in his arms and read a statement: "I am no longer a rich man. It is untrue that I have taken a fortune from Egypt. My wife, my baby son and three young daughters'[by his first wife] will live very simply... The King of Egypt is here with me. I must be careful not to say anything that might make difficulties. He will have difficulties enough of his own, for it is not as easy...
...free impressions from his rambles around the Continent. The portrait work was bread & butter art-formal and flattering. But those he had dashed off on his travels showed a masterly touch. In a few confident strokes of smooth color, Bedikian could re-create the patient labor of a Capri fisherman's life, the lazy alertness of street urchins, the sag of a dray horse pulling a heavy load. Since Painter Bedikian still lacks the official critical accolade, his pictures were selling at the relatively modest average of 90,000 francs (about...