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...bell rang. The boys rose, recited a prayer to Our Lady of Fatima, and quietly filed out. Every day, for nearly four years, they would be drilled in the fundamentals of the Roman Catholic faith...
...hate. Last winter the man of nonviolence, Gandhi, died violently at the hands of an assassin. Last week the man of hate, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, at 71, died a natural death in Karachi, capital of the state he had founded. His devoted and equally fanatic sister, Fatima, was at his side; so was his daughter, Mrs. Dinah Wadia, whom he had disowned because she married a Parsee (as he had done before...
...signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still life prominently featuring a copy of the book-and signed the picture "Mousie"; Ella Raines showed a circus scene and signed her middle name, "Fatima"; Elizabeth Taylor titled her self-sculpture "Mona Lizzie...
During a big Jinnah public meeting in Lahore, a mullah (priest) lashed out, during his preliminary prayer in the Urdu language, at women who violate purdah (seclusion). Fatima, sitting a few feet from the mullah, with her face, as always, unveiled, did not take in the criticism; neither she nor her brother (who was sitting on a golden throne high above the crowd) speaks Urdu, the language of Jinnah's western domain...
...then Fatima tries to draw some human warmth out of Jinnah, who completely lacks a sense of humor. During a trip in the Governor General's personal plane, Jinnah essayed a joke with his fellow passengers, forgot the point, mumbled to a stop. "You didn't finish," chided sister Fatima...