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A Great Dream. At 17, "Koussy" left his home town of Vyshny-Volochek to study the bass fiddle in Moscow. Soon he was playing with the Imperial Opera orchestra, toured on the side for ten years as a soloist. Not content with his specialized fame as the world's...
The Shah's small (130,000) but loyal army was in its barracks, ready for trouble. For the present, at least, there was none. Beyond the capital, Iran's brown and barren face was peaceful. The skeletons of Persepolis, Susa, Pasargadae, the great dead imperial cities, were bleaching...
Young Mohammed was educated in the shadow of the Shah's palace. Between assignments in classical Persian and Arabic, he hunted gazelles and wild pigs with the favorites of the Shah's court. His mother, a woman with a strong social conscience, took him with her on her...
In Teheran, Oilman Fraser agreed to send a representative to confer with the parliamentary oil commission "as a measure of respect to the Imperial Government and the Iranian Parliament." Reports trickled out of Parliament that some members of the commission were counseling coolness, conciliation and delay. The British still hold...
Some 4,365,000 Austrians voted this week for a new President to succeed the late Dr. Karl Renner. Their choice: General Theodor Koerner, a spade-bearded septuagenarian (78), who was born an aristocrat and served as an officer in the imperial army, but long ago dropped the von from...