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Though Maggie was born in Karachi, India, she was brought up in lower-middle-class South London. At Italia Conti's dramatic school for children, where Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence studied, Maggie got her start as a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Since Pakistan's creation last August, the world has heard little of its creator, Mohamed Ali Jinnah. After a month of illness in Lahore, Jinnah recently returned to Karachi, gaunter than ever. From there last week came reports of Jinnah's life as Governor General of what he proudly calls "the fifth largest nation in the world...
Jinnah now lives in lonely splendor at Government House in Karachi. Frosty and aloof as ever, he keeps his advisers and ministers at a respectful distance. His constant companion, and only close friend, is his 54-year-old sister Fatima. After their parents died, when Fatima was nine, Jinnah brought her up. She was a dentist for a year in Bombay; her first patient was brother Mohamed. She gave up dentistry to look after him when his wife died...
...rupees ($60,000,000) from the Reserve Bank of India, but that was long since spent. Two weeks ago the British Overseas Airways Corp. was paid by Pakistan Government check on the Bank of India for transporting 30,000 officials and their families from Delhi to Karachi. The check bounced. B.O.A.C. subsequently got its money, but other creditors are still waiting anxiously. Civil servants in Karachi have had their salaries cut and their housing allowances stopped...
...Moslem Karachi, Pakistan Governor General Mohamed Ali Jinnah raged at the news. He ordered Pakistan troops, under British Lieut. General D. D. Gracey, into Kashmir. The order was not carried out, for in New Delhi British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck threatened to withdraw British officers from Pakistan's Army...