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The young Shah who will have to cope with these stirrings was educated in Switzerland and graduated by the Teheran military academy. Like most Oriental princelings he has the reputation of liking females and a passion for driving his license-less sports Bugatti as fast as it will go.
Thirty-two of Britain's leading ladies marched last week into Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's office to demand equality with men in Britain's Diplomatic Service (now for men only). They gushed scorn on every common objection from "marriage would interfere" to the notion that an...
Last week Gimbels scattered over its art floor 1,000 Egyptian, Roman, Greek and Oriental antiques from the collections of Manhattan's Mrs. John Morrin and Boston's Mrs. Wilmot Evans, did a rushing business in sphinxes, mummies, antique jewelry (from $1.45 up).
Next in popularity is the Speakers Bureau, which provides entertainment of all kinds for settlement house, Church, or hospital groups. As might be imagined, most of the entertainment takes the form of speeches, which are on subjects ranging from current events to oriental culture. Magician shows, skits, and musical entertainments...
Critics and Defenders. A man so furiously vigorous and drastic as the Shah in Shah is bound to have detractors. They contend he is nothing more than another Oriental despot who has caused shoals of his enemies to be murdered, tortured, kidnapped, imprisoned. They claim he slaps Cabinet Ministers in...