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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Persia's handsome, 24-year-old Shah (his Queen is the beauteous Egyptian Princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's King Farouk) was presented with a jeep by Major General Donald Hilary Connolly, U.S. Commander in the Persian Gulf area...
...trips to the zoo he could watch the elephants all day. He admires elephant-foot carpets, likes little ivory jumbos on his desk. Some friends think he has taken on elephant characteristics, among them a stupendous memory. For his headquarters when he commanded Britain's PAI force (Persia & Iraq) he designed an emblem with a rampaging elephant, trunk uplifted...
William Bliss Harris, who manages the TIME editions printed in Hawaii, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Australia, Persia and India, has been in Sweden ever since October arranging for this first European edition of TIME (he was scheduled to leave Scotland on the Swedish plane the Germans shot down in the Skagerrak, is alive today only because he was switched at the last minute to a British bomber...
...TIME-in-Persia brings to six the number of TIME editions now printed thousands of miles away. The others are the three print ings in Latin America -Mexico City, Buenos Aires (temporarily suspend ed) and Bogotá-one in Australia for General MacArthur's men-and one in Honolulu for Hawaii and our is land outposts in the Mid-Pacific...
...plant in El Segundo, employing 21,000, and more than 100 other small plants and repair stations tucked away in worldwide spots from Persia to China. The Santa Monica and half of the El Segundo plants represent Douglas Aircraft investment. Government money built the others...