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...association of British phillumenists (collectors of matchbox labels) reinstated one of its members who had been delinquent since July: former King Farouk of Egypt (who had a collection of 150,000 items before he left Egypt) finally got around to sending in his 125. 6d. back dues...
Naguib, who had sent troops to rout Farouk, had sent a tax collector to rout Nahas. How, the confident investigator asked Nahas, had he managed to accumulate his huge wealth-two palaces and a large farm? Nervously, Nahas insisted that he was personally poor; the investigator would have to see his wife. Madame Nahas explained that she had made the family fortune by dealing in buffaloes. Unusual trade, murmured the investigator, and how had she got together her original capital? A 10,000-pound (Egyptian) wedding gift from her husband, she snapped. The investigator folded his papers. Everyone knew that...
Former Queen Narriman, 18, wife of exiled King Farouk of Egypt, had no sooner left him to mind the baby on the Isle of Capri, than reporters began gossiping about a divorce. A Cairo newspaper reported that Narriman's family were trying to find a way for the Queen and her infant son King Fuad II to return to Egypt to give encouragement to the monarchists. In Lausanne, Switzerland, where Narriman had gone with her mother for some medical treatment, the Queen was said to have consulted lawyers about a divorce. At week's end, as Narriman returned...
...Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely against the ex-King [Farouk]. It was, still is, and will continue to be a sword unsheathed against corruption in every shape or form." The politicians had been arrested, the communique added, because their parties had disregarded the Commander in Chief's order to purge themselves of corruption or be purged...
...same at Montazah, Farouk's summer home. Beside the King's bed were six telephones, two radios and his field marshal's uniform. In Queen Narriman's boudoir lay her latest reading matter: Lady Chatterley's Lover and Arabian Nights in French. In Her Majesty's bathroom still hung her dainty white bathrobe, left behind in the rush...