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Perhaps the only man who could have stopped Gandhi was brilliant, unstable Jawaharlal Nehru, but he went off on a small and dizzy tangent to his native Kashmir, where the local maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, had arrested a popular leader, the sheik Mohamed Abdullah. Sir Hari had Nehru arrested. In protest, thousands of Bombay mill workers and Calcutta transport workers went on strike. Markets closed in many cities, and in Madura five Indians were killed in riots...
Arabs in the Cistern. The $11, Eaton had understood, was to cover the whole journey, but the sheik in charge understood differently; on the second day the camel drivers went on strike. This was the first of many sit-downs ordered by the camel sheik, after each of which Eaton recorded laconically in his journal: "Pacified him with promises...
...Marion Hargrove's See Here, Private Hargrove (2,500,000). Farther down the list are Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Bob Hope's / Never Left Home, with around a million and a half sales each. Anthony Adverse and Edith M. Hull's The Sheik have each sold some 1,190,000 copies. Quo Vadis and the nostalgic travelogue Our Hearts Were Young and Gay also run neck & neck. And Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills is tied at 1,200,000 with H. G. Wells's Outline of History...
Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany...
...lads who had a reputation for being a demon with the gals. These, he said, were letters from his Number One girl. 'That's the only dame he could never make,' said one of his admirers good-naturedly. 'He wants to MARRY her!' The Sheik only chuckled. 'F- you, Mac,' he said, indulging in the Marines' favorite word. 'The trouble with you is you never met a virgin...