Word: farouk
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...King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...
...musician father and Egyptian mother-gypsies both -took her to China, India and Europe (where on cold nights Gypsy slept with the bear cubs). At 14 she was playing a secondhand accordion in a Chicago nightspot. She has played in Paris, in Sweden (before King Gustaf), in Egypt (before Farouk), in Washington (for President Roosevelt...
With King Farouk. "The President referred to the purchase by the United States of large quantities of long-staple Egyptian cotton during the war and stressed the hope that greatly increased exchange of other commodities would be developed in the future. . . . Tourist travel to Egypt, the President said, was certain to become greater after the war than before...
...Cairo's Parliament building rose Egypt's Premier Dr. Ahmed Maher Pasha. Five years ago he had urged Egypt to declare war on the Axis. Now he read the royal declaration of war he had drafted (at the behest of the Big Three-see INTERNATIONAL) with King Farouk. Then the portly, fun-loving Premier stepped briskly to the waiting Senate to read...
...Middle East the occasion was momentous. Egypt's King Farouk was host. The delegates were Foreign Ministers or their equivalent. Trans-Jordan's Premier Samir el Refai Pasha underlined the Arabic character of the meeting. Though he wears European clothes in his native desert, he wore stunning Arab robes in Cairo. Most important, Saudi Arabia, keystone of any Pan-Arab federation and outstanding absentee at last autumn's Alexandria conference of Arab nations (TIME, Oct. 16), would attend the meeting in the person of Al Sheikh Yussef Yassin, personal secretary of King Ibn Saud. Yemen, the little...