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Suffering from an acute sense of insecurity and flickering suspicions, Ann Woodward sometimes created volcanic public scenes with her husband. In El Morocco one night, she scratched Bill Woodward's face until it bled, after he pulled out a handkerchief with a lipstick stain on it. At the Marquis de Cuevas' ball in Biarritz two years ago (TIME. Sept. 14, 1953), Ann, dressed as a red devil, reacted violently when she saw her husband dancing with Carmen Sainte, the beautiful Chilean-born wife of a big French rope-and-hemp man. During the dance, Mme. Sainte wrapped...
From the moment his plane touched down at Nice airport last week, Morocco's ex-Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef made clear he was not returning as a suppliant, grateful to be allowed to return from remote Madagascar to a more congenial clime. Two hundred Moroccans stood in the drizzling rain to cheer him as he descended, svelte in grey djellabah and white pointed slippers, and followed by his two sons, four daughters, two wives and 19 veiled concubines. The Foreign Ministry had ordered a Riviera hotel specially reopened for him. But after only one night, Ben Youssef abruptly...
...matter of days, the whole elaborate contrivance of checks, balances, compromises and precautions which the French had devised in Morocco had collapsed on their heads. Last week, gulping bravely, the government issued a statement that it "welcomed the possibilities which now appear of ensuring for Morocco a calm, orderly evolution of its destiny in permanent cooperation with the renewed framework of France." In Morocco, where Ben Youssef has become in exile a hero he never was in residence, joyous nationalists bought lambs, chickens and goats to fatten up for slaughter when Ben Youssef returns. At week...
...hero of The Spider's House is a dilettante culture vulture named John Stenham. In present-day French Morocco, he resents the growing web of tension, intrigue and violence spun by the French and the Arabs. A neutralist esthete in love with his romantic image of the Arabs as a race of noble and religious savages, he does not want the French to keep Morocco or the nationalists to take...
...snatched from newsstands by happy purchasers, many of whom ostentatiously kissed the image of the Sultan. At week's end, as the Sultan was flown from exile in Madagascar to a Riviera villa, it did not require a great gift of prophecy to forecast his early return to Morocco...