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Arthur John Arberry, Cambridge University professor of Arabic and authority on Persian, is a plump and hearty gentleman with a stiff black mustache who long ago made up his mind about one thing. "Every scholar of Persian," he once wrote, "firmly resolves, quite early in his career, that whatever other...
The Fadeout. Around 11 a.m. Aly's pressagent stepped out of the clinic. "Gentlemen," he said portentously, "will you please stand by for an important announcement by Prince Aly Khan himself?" Rumpled and unshaven, Aly told the world: it was a ½lb. girl, a normal delivery, though "Rita...
Using two columns of print and four languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English), they announced defiantly: "That's right, Mahwah. Spelled M-A-H-W-A-H." What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5...
In an advertisement in the June 27 issue, Peter S. Safran, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., noticed a magazine which appeared to him to have its logotype purposely defaced or to be an international edition of TIME in Arabic. At any rate, he wanted to know which was correct,* and added...
Pleased and proud at having contributed a man so well-qualified on all counts, the nobles of Al Malaikah Temple blew into Chicago last weekend. With them they brought 20,000 Harold Lloydish hornrimmed spectacles for their brethren to wear. Chicago citizens blinked. In hotels and bars, along the streets...