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...twelve years, Farouk of Egypt wandered in exile. In public he wore dark glasses and was accompanied by two bodyguards who fended off newsmen and curious bystanders. In private Farouk endlessly pursued women and was reputed to know every call girl in Rome by name. When a starlet appeared on the Via Veneto with a new piece of jewelry, friends would examine it and ask "Farouk...
Married. Princess Fadia, 21, youngest daughter of Egypt's ex-king Farouk and his first wife Farida; and Pierre Orloff, 26, Swiss geologist, well-born son of an exiled White Russian; in a civil ceremony at which Farouk was noticeably absent (he wanted Fadia to marry a Moslem, not a Russian Orthodox); in London...
...Fifteen years ago, says French Art Expert Maurice Rheims, "no one except King Farouk would have thought of buying Gallé vases." But tastes change. The art-nouveau revival dates from 1952, when London's Victoria and Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York...
...just saw your picture of L.B.J. boating [July 17], or was it really ex-King Farouk gloating...
Baffling Charm. Author Newby peoples his lively books with rogues and innocents and makes both types fresh and fascinating. In The Picnic at Sakkara, he wittily chronicled the blundering adventures of Edgar Perry, a British innocent at large in King Farouk's Egypt. The baffling charm and evasive malevolence of a restive Egypt have never been better evoked, or with more understanding. In The Barbary Light, his hero is a rogue who has all the equipment needed to be a killer except the killer's instinct - in fact, Owen suffers from immoral flabbiness. Newby, moreover...