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Across the Atlantic to the parley will fly some 150 delegates from the U.S.: President Eisenhower (in the Columbine late this week), Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, such European specialists as the State Department's Livingston Merchant and Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of the general), such "unofficial delegates" as Presidential Advisers Harold Stassen and Nelson Rockefeller, backstopped by Filipino mess-boys from the White House...
...place, his wife, Queen Fatima, 40, had given him no son and heir. Then too, the entire royal family was jealous of the trust the old King put in his chief adviser, Ibrahim el-Shalhi, who wanted to marry the King off to his own daughter. Last fall a nephew of the Queen shot the adviser dead...
Fatima's nephew was executed for his trouble, but his sacrifice was not in vain...
...seen or read to be disbelieved. She is a coupon-clipping Pearl White hanging on the dizzy cliff edge of her every enthusiasm. She is a roaring Life Drive without a muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little old lady from Dubuque will find Auntie Mame some gal, but no lady...
...Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil-tempered old mother, and trails a fox hunt in her hus band's Duesenberg. "I just hope I won't be sick when they kill that poor little fox," she confides to nephew Pat. Poor Auntie Mame has "never fully mastered the automobile." As the hounds come yelping down the road, the Duesenberg lurches forward, and Auntie Mame is in at the kill: "The fox lay dead under...