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Egypt's pleasure-sated ex-King Farouk, most feckless monarch of modern times, celebrated the third anniversary of his dethronement by calling in Paris newsmen and weeping like a Nile crocodile over the plight of his former subjects. Blubbered fat, foolish Farouk, while sipping unloaded mineral water (booze was never one of his vices): "The revolution has turned into a tyrannical dictatorship. The army officers, the so-called 'liberators,' have become small despots. Egypt is now a police state and the Egyptians are a captive people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders for milkshakes or ham-and-eggs without batting an eye. Patrons include Egypt's ex-King Farouk, Hollywood's ex-Star Bruce Cabot (now a fixture of Rome's colony of movie expatriates), visiting U.S. executives, Turkish businessmen, passing luminaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Beach | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...almost the same spot one night last week, helmeted members of the Garde Républicaine held seats for people of importance-British Ambassador Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov, ex-King Farouk. When they and some 8,000 others were seated, the production of ballet hit a height of splendor to satisfy a Medici...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romeo on Three Levels | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...auction block in Cairo: a confiscated, outsize frogman outfit, once the property of Egypt's bullfrogsize ex-King Farouk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Egypt's ex-King Farouk, interviewed by Milan's weekly Tempo, was still looking like the fat of the land, but disclosed that he no longer lives off it. Moaned he: "I lived in wonderful palaces with a thousand-and-one-night atmosphere. But I was never personally rich . . . The revolutionists have seized my private property ... I left Alexandria with the change I had in my pocket." How much change? "A faithful secretary at the last moment slipped ?600 sterling into my pocket." On such a pittance, asked his interviewer, how had Farouk managed to live so high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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