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Married. Princess Faiza, 22, beauteous third sister of Egypt's King Farouk (previously reported engaged to her third cousin, Nabil Ess-El-Din Hassan and a son of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia) ; and the Hon. Ali Raouf, U.S.-educated Egyptian and wartime resident of Switzerland; in Cairo...
From Saudi Arabia came the only royalty. Prince Faisal, son of King Ibn Saud, wore a snow-white burnoose and golden head cord, maintained Mohammedan sobriety, but was not above spending an evening with his delegation at the circus in New York...
...small lectern, and a piano. The warm, flower-scented room filled with Franklin Roosevelt's family and friends, the top men of the U.S., representatives of the foreign world-the new President, Harry Truman, the cabinet, Britain's Anthony Eden, Russia's Andrei Gromyko, King Ibn Saud's son Emir Faisal, stately in an Arab burnoose. The pianist struck a chord, the mourners stood to sing the hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save...
...From Ibn Saud she and daughter Anna Boettiger had each received a silk-embroidered harem gown. "We had quite a show the other night," said Eleanor Roosevelt primly, explaining that they had merely held them up to see how they looked. Emperor Haile Selassie had sent a gold bracelet. Then she remembered a jeweled crown received two years ago. She did not remember who sent it, she added, but it was on display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. (At the library, the crown, 6 inches high and encrusted with jeweled birds and butterflies, is listed...
...King Ibn Saud of Arabia ("Servant of the Mighty One") walks with a slow, deliberate gait. The nine battle wounds of his youth, even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...