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"You Westerners idolize your Colonel T. E. 'Lawrence of Arabia' " observed in Cairo last week the Sheik Mustapha El Maraghi, rector of the Egyptian capital's 1,000-year-old Moslem University. "You credit Lawrence entirely with the success of the revolt of the Arabs against the...
"The result was that the young woman was no more received by Mussolini. Weeks passed during which she wrote Il Duce letters that went unanswered. The automobile at her disposal was withdrawn and hotel bills accumulated unpaid. One morning she was found unconscious in her room after having taken an...
In 1920 a likely young New Zealander named Henry Hector Bolitho* made the friendly acquaintance of Edward of Wales, then aged 25 and dutifully touring the Dominions "down under" at the zenith of his infectious charm. Soon a book, With the Prince in New Zealand by Hector Bolitho was selling...
. . . The chairman is singularly on the spot. His authority is so great and the means placed at his disposal so ample that there is no room left for alibis."
With this letter William Randolph Hearst drew a bead on his audience which has not wavered in 50 years of "Gee Whiz!" journalism. Eight years later, with the Examiner going strong, the first big battle by Hearst for his publishing empire was fought in Manhattan. He grappled for an Eastern...