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Abdullah had three wives, two sons, three daughters. No. 1 Queen was a cousin, Umm Talal, mother of Prince Talal; No. 2 Queen was a Turk, Umm Naif, mother of Prince Naif the new regent; No. 3 was a comely Ethiopian, black as the tents of Kedar, onetime maidservant to Umm Naif. The black queen attended to Abdullah's clothes, prepared his favorite meals of tender lamb, rice and raisins. A trim figure with a passion for green clothes and nylon stockings, she is, despite her heavy veil, often recognized in Amman's streets. An Amman urchin once...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...
...into town for the doings. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, Tom Clark and Sherman Minton, all the Kentucky court of appeals judges, the governors of Kentucky and nearby West Virginia were there to honor the home-town boy. They ate country ham and fried chicken as guests of cousin R. L. Vinson, a retired banker. Then came the ceremony at which a bronze plaque, bearing Chief Justice Vinson's mournfully dignified likeness, 'was dedicated. "The happiest day of my life," said Vinson.* Said a whiskered old mountaineer: "For a feller who started life in jail, Fred sure...
Taft men are already beating the country: his good friend (and second cousin) David Sinton Ingalls, and Ben E. Tate have visited 23 states, talking up Taft...
...delegates represented some half-million supporters in all parts of South Africa, roused to resistance against the increasingly severe racial segregation policies of 77-year-old Prime Minister Daniel Malan,*a distant cousin of handsome, pipe-smoking Sailor Malan...