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...impounded estate of unbeautiful exiled brother Farouk. The lawyers acting for them will challenge the will of their father, the late King Fuad, which left all movable treasures in the royal palaces to Farouk; and base their claim on Islamic law, which gives each female one-eighth of the fam ily estate. The government's case: the estate is now public property, not subject to inheritance rules...
...able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer. This makes him the Tories' No. 3 man, and heir to Britain's growing sterling debts, tum bling gold and dollar reserves and adverse balance of trade. Born in India, son of an academic fam (two of Harrow's headmasters have been Butlers), "Rab" Butler won highest hon ors at Cambridge (double "first" in French and history), married into the multi-million-dollar Courtaulds...
...hardly a spark of fun. In spots, without risking originality, the songs and dances give the movie some zest. Too often they display the outworn grotesqueries of Carmen Miranda and the excessive juvenility of Actress Powell. Occasionally, to denote conscious hamming by members of the heroine's acting fam ily, the soundtrack breaks into a few pompous bars of Wagner. It is not much of a gag, but it is a handy guide to the intentions of the players...
...January 1887). Roving, British-born Father Woollcott was an eccentric parent ; he played cards suspiciously well, became a natty secretary to the Kansas City Light & Coke Co., once went to bed for two years (he was tired), and spent his last years in an institution. His mother's fam ily were among the remnants of a once-flourishing, 19th-Century Utopian colony who lived in a rambling, 85-room house near Red Bank, N.J. Father Woollcott visited his wife, said "his disgruntled in-laws, "chiefly for breeding purposes." and little Aleck's arrival was considered "a scandal...
...quite all right with my fam-ilfo rmeto og nup nup nupnupuup ily for me to go," she told reporters. The Boston Traveler. Nup, nup, nup, well all right...