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...first maharani is dead. Maharani No. 2 is living in retirement, back in Jaipur. The currently visible maharani is the sister of the fun-loving maharaja of Cooch-Behar, and a sportswoman in her own right: by her own reckoning, she has bagged some 25 tigers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Hot Afternoon | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...foreign fellow is scragged in due time, but not until the screen has been traversed by sandstorms, scorpions, Tuaregs and an epic cooch in which Samia Gamal, the unfrocked Texan-by-marriage, gongs it around pretty effectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Because of "all the things he did to me," Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia ("The Virgin of the Nile") Gamal, a onetime favorite of ex-King Farouk, chucked her husband of 18 months, Houston Real-Estate Heir Sheppard ("Abdullah") King III, and flew back to Cairo. Abdullah, flourishing a telegram ("I shall be praying for you") from Evangelist Billy Graham, followed. After truce talks in her lawyer's office, Abdullah emerged to announce their reconciliation. He had made "concessions," because "show business is in Samia's blood." From now on, he said, it would be all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...brothel, a pawnshop, and such darkly symbolic figures as a callous worldling who spits on common humanity, Storm-Trooperish policemen who cudgel it, street cleaners who cart its bodies off to the city dump. Around an arriving young American prizefighter with a bad heart flow loan sharks, plutocrats, cooch dancers, madams, homosexuals, a Casanova on his uppers, a Camille who herself must buy love, a Lord Byron who escapes to Greece for an ideal, a Don Quixote who offers the escape of illusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...engagement at a Miami nightclub, Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia Gamal, bride of Texas Playboy (Shepherd) Abdullah King, sniffed the U.S. air, announced that American women "use too much soap. I take a bath twice every week, and the other days I sponge myself with olive oil. It would be better if American girls shined a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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