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...dimpled, 35-year-old Tobacco Scion Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr. lent Democratic campaign committees some $300,000 last year, he found himself treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Last week Neophyte Reynolds' political career advanced another step when fellow North Carolinians put him up for mayor of Winston-Salem. - As London's famed, 300-acre Royal Botanic Gardens at Suburban Kew celebrated its centenary with unabated activity and attendance, doughty old Director Sir Arthur Hill chortled: "Hitler's bombs have failed to do as much damage as the disastrous hailstorm of 1879," announced that against...
After booming the circulation of Egyptian newspapers for the past two months, the trial of Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning in court when pomaded, silk-shirt-wearing Ahmed Salem's expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel...
...Ahmed Salem himself stood right up to the State, shouted in court that the Egyptian Government habitually indulges in bribery, forgery and perjury, so why should not Government contractors? He ridiculed the King's Prosecutor for demanding the death penalty, ingeniously argued: "The air-raid wardens and police will take cover during air raids and their steel helmets will not be needed anyway. So how can I be accused of treason or sabotage? By using iron, I was actually saving steel for other armaments. The Egyptian State really ought to commend my patriotic...
...also disclosed that Ahmed Salem had sought to flatter Egyptian royalty by designing special silver-rimmed helmets for young King Farouk and Queen Farida. Their Majesties' helmets were to have sported the Egyptian royal coat of arms "to facilitate identification in case either royalty became a casualty...
There never seemed much doubt of Ahmed Salem's guilt. One of his partners, with whom he had quarreled, spilled the whole story of how they used forged Egyptian War Ministry stamps to pass off their shoddy iron helmets as the tested and approved steel article. However, by the time the trial ended Ahmed & Amina were so nationally popular as great lovers that Egyptian justice forbore to crack down hard. Ahmed got, not death, but two years at hard labor...