Word: mashhur
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...captains and the kings paraded on and off the stage in official Washington last week, one little scene-stealer grabbed his own private spotlight and held it right down to the last curtain. He was solemn little Prince Mashhur ibn Saud. 3½, son of the Saudi Arabian King, who had only to blink his liquid brown eyes to evoke cooings and mental chin-chucks across the nation...
...children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter of U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia George Wadsworth. The prince tried to oblige, was repulsed. With that, Mashhur brandished a small fist, whacked the tearful girl on the shoulder, got his buss...
Occupying the presidential suite at Walter Reed Army Hospital outside Washington last week was a wide-eyed little boy born to palace luxury but a newcomer to the miracles of modern medicine. The patient: Prince Mashhur ibn Saud, 3½, the 17th and favorite son of Arabia's King Saud (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The boy had captivated welcoming crowds with his grave salutes-but they were given with his left hand. The little prince's right side is partly paralyzed, allowing him only limited use of the arm, and he limps on a right leg that is drawn...
...Commandant Leonard D. Heaton, half a dozen of the hospital's department heads worked over Prince Mashhur. Their conclusion: he had suffered a brain injury at his birth. The result is akin to cerebral palsy, though the child has no tremor. Abnormal nerve impulses to muscles in the right leg have shortened the heel cord (Achilles' tendon); its shortness forces the prince to walk on the toes and ball of the foot...
...physical-medicine experts considered Mashhur too young for formal retraining exercises, but encouraged him to try to use his right (which he can do with a little effort), including right-handed salutes...