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...Cannes, King Farouk, whose appetite runs to rare and beautiful objects, paid $4,500 for a butterfly collection that caught his eye. Next day, his hotel manager, who happened to hear that the King liked frogs' legs, ordered a special banquet for the royal party: 1,200 legs rushed down by train from Paris...
...journalist named Kareem Tabet, who is now the King's press counselor and confidant, has been described as Egypt's Harry Vaughan. Another of the King's favorites is a little Italian named Pulley Bey, a former palace barber and electrician whom (so the story goes) Farouk used to follow around when he was a child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court jester and general handy man, recruits poker partners and, occasionally, pretty dancing partners; Tabet, Pulley and a half dozen similar hangers-on are generally believed...
...Blanket." Farouk is a lonely man who would like to be gregarious but does not have the knack for it. He used to go to small cocktail parties given by an old American friend, but found that the other guests would freeze up in his presence and stand around silently. Finally he said to his host: "I'm not coming any more because I am a wet blanket...
There is no doubt that Farouk is intelligent and energetic. Every morning (after breakfasting on a bowl of porridge, five or six eggs, a plate of beans and a pot of coffee) he begins poring over a mass of reports sent him by his special agents in every branch of the government. He updates himself with the latest press clippings, telegrams and diplomatic reports. From then on, he keeps his staff hopping most of the day. He has a quick mind, reads widely, can tell racy stories or discuss foreign policy in seven languages...
...Husseini (59), Mufti of Jerusalem, veteran plotter against British rule in the Middle East, and ruthless enemy of the West. Spent most of World War II in Berlin. In 1946, while awaiting trial in Paris as a war criminal, he escaped, since then has lived in Egypt as King Farouk's honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army," the Moslem...