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...shoulders fascinated me, and his arms and his powerful wrists covered with dark, virile hair," cooed Farouk's Queen Narriman, in world-syndicated memoirs palmed off as her own. "And I found love such as I would never have dared to hope for." For his part, wrote Farouk, who seemed to have an equally corny ghostwriter, "Life without her would be lonely indeed . . . Narriman was the first human being . . . who really began . . . to understand the man behind the panoply of royalty...
Ever since Naguib's coup of last July stripped 33-year-old King Farouk of his crown, Narriman has had to contemplate Farouk's powerful, hairy wrists in exile-first on Capri, finally in a 30-room villa staffed by eight servants in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Bereft of palaces, they pursued pleasures: days at the races, nights at the opera, wee hours at Rome's tame little nightclubs. Each had a Mercedes-Benz, green for him, cherry red for her. Sometimes they appeared separately, 19-year-old Narriman with a coterie of envious, twittering, teen...
Back in the days when Farouk was Egypt's king, almost any reference in TIME to Egyptian politics became an automatic candidate for the censor's scissors. TIME was banned in Egypt for half of 1948 and most issues in 1949 had stories snipped out. The cover story on Farouk (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951) was not allowed to enterEgypt and stories in subsequent issues were cut out of the magazines before TIME was released for distribution...
...this changed abruptly with last July's military coup, which resulted in Farouk's exile. General Mohammed Naguib showed himself to be just as sensitive to criticism as his predecessor, but less determined to censor criticism from abroad. After Naguib became a cover subject himself (TIME, Sept. 8), Correspondent Dave Richardson brought him a copy of the story. Entitled "A Good Man," the story told of the start of Naguib's rise to power...
...army Free Officers Committee that fired King Farouk and installed Naguib as ruler of Egypt has come to be known as The Fourteen. From the beginning they all knew that one of their number-Captain Yussef Sadek-was married to a Communist and himself talked like one. Still, Captain Sadek worked hard, did the jobs assigned to him efficiently and well...