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...with melodrama. In 1941 she remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...
Soon Ismahan and Ahmed Salem quarreled and parted. A fortnight ago the estranged husband came to his wife's villa on Cairo's Pyramids Road, fired several revolver shots, missed her, wounded a policeman, then turned the gun on himself. Doting Arabic cinemafans sighed with relief when they learned that their favorite had not been harmed. Last week the hospital reported that Ahmed Salem and the policeman were on the way to recovery...
...Winston-Salem Junior Leaguers discussed closing their Thrift Shop after Pearl Harbor. Last month was their biggest May in twelve years; a clientele which was originally almost 99% Negro now includes many middle-class white families. And Salvation Army thrift shops scattered through the South had upped their sales from...
...wealth and prestige went up, the Saltonstall political fortunes went down. Great-Grandfather Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) was president of the Massachusetts Senate, member of Congress, first mayor of Salem in the Golden Age of Emerson and Thoreau. Grandfather Leverett Saltonstall, a member of the then-flourishing species of Yankee Democrats, was a good friend of Democrat Grover Cleveland, and thus became Collector of the Port of Boston. The present governor's father, also a Yankee Democrat, couldn't even get elected to the state legislature in his try for office...
Arthur Footer Suite for Strings, Op. 63 (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor; 4 sides). A fresh, well-built Brahmsian piece. Salem-born, Harvard-trained Composer Foote (1853-1937) was a far sounder craftsman than most present-day U.S. composers. Performance excellent, recording good...