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...Begum ordered Bano shackled tightly in the royal bedroom, and was off for a day at the race track. What happened next was related in a Karachi court by the Begum's senior maid. "She came back at 6. Bano was crying, 'Give me water, loosen me!' Her Highness kicked Bano twice and ordered me to bring a cane and with it she beat Bano. Then she turned on me and screamed: 'You daughter of a pig! How dare you look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Munawarr Jehan Begum, senior wife of the exiled Nawab of Junagadh, was being washed and dressed by three timorous maids in her Karachi mansion one Sunday morning last year. Suddenly Her Highness' jowls began to quiver. Someone, she screamed, had usurped the royal privy. The culprit proved to be 13-year-old Bano, a scared little peasant-born maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Begum's orders, the senior maid inserted half an ounce of red pepper into Bano's rectum. The little girl swelled up and soon became unconscious. "Let that daughter of a bitch die," said the Begum. Three days later, Bano died. Her body was buried clandestinely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Karachi jail, the Begum got two cells instead of the usual one, furnished them with her own linen, radio and electric fan, and brought a maid, a male servant and two nieces to comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: The Cruel Begum | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...good-looking, good-for-nothing roughneck (Ralph Meeker), he comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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