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On the Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a...
Back to Front. In Cairo, Al Mukhtar sells for three piasters (12½ cents). To help cover costs, the Digest reverses its U.S. policy, takes advertising. Among the advertisers: Glenn L. Martin and Vega Airplane, Higgins Industries, Parker Pen. At three piasters the Arabic edition is still a luxury item...
The News. In Caldwell, Idaho, Mrs. William Paulson received a thoroughgoing account of her husband's activities as a second lieutenant in Egypt. It was written by his houseboy, in Arabic.
Maung (Mr.) Shwe Waing is a fine example of what may well prove to be a revolution in language teaching. What Yale is doing with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of...
In primitive Arabic, Ramadan means "intense heat." Though it has no fixed date in the Western calendar and may occur even in winter, this year's Ramadan of 29 days appropriately broke right into the hottest summer that Egypt remembers. The damp caused by the flooding Nile spread low...