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Actor Abdul-Wahab's trilly tenor voice has long been heard on Italian Arabic propaganda broadcasts. The programs were recorded. But so popular was Abdul-Wahab's crooning even in that form that Arabs were more than willing to listen to a few words of anti-British oratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crooner | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

After attending a debutante party and getting to bed at 4 a. m., 20-year-old Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., grandson of the late President, heard that he had been chosen a Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

We have been living with the Jews in Iraq and other Arabic countries for hundreds of years peacefully and amicably. The element that we are fighting now is not the minorities we have with us but that new foreign element Zionism which has been encroaching into Palestine for the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Born. To King Farouk of Egypt, 18, and his 17-year-old wife, Queen Farida: a daughter, their first child; in Alexandria, a week after the usual false alarm. Name: Ferial (Arabic for "Light").

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Muttering incantations which charmers profess the snakes know and heed, the aged snake man moved about the villa and grounds. "Come forth, O snakes, in the name of Allah! In the name of Allah, O snakes, come out of your holes," he chanted in archaic Arabic. Suddenly he sank to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Ambassador's Snakes | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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