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...square outside Farouk's suburban palace at Kubbeh one morning last week when Egypt's King finally made a Queen of the 17-year-old girl on whom his royal eyes fell over a year ago, when she was the fiancée of a civil servant (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950). The square was lined with mounted lancers and foot guards in immaculate white. Narriman Sadek was not present at the ceremony. Like all good Moslem brides, she waited at home while her uncle and her husband-to-be exchanged the marriage vows and signed the marriage contract...
...award is presented by the Burma Translation Society, which is headed by Prime Minister Thakin Nu. It goes to the best novel of the year, in this case On Pe's Min Hmu Dan ("The Civil Servant"), a story of the corrupt bu reaucracy run by Burmese and British officials during Britain's rule in Burma...
...Sultan was allowed to form his own private cabinet. He made a speech frankly stating his aim: independence. El Glaoui, still a devoted servant of France, paid the Sultan a visit, warned him that his Berbers did not like his anti-French attitude. The Sultan ordered El Glaoui out of the palace...
...salary of about ?25 a year (and with an old sewing machine to help make his clothes), Archdeacon Gill has been the Christian servant and leader of about 4,000 people in an area a little larger than Connecticut. In addition to his liturgical duties he has assisted at childbirths, performed operations, pulled teeth, built a church, a school, furniture work shops, a lighting plant and a wharf. When the Japanese blitzed his mission during World War II, his devoted people carried him off to the mountains, reverently hauled along his old typewriter so he could finish his translation...
...Bystricky, ambassador to London, veteran Communist and economic expert. After his recall, his wife vainly waited for news of him, last fortnight received orders to come home. Last week, apparently undecided about whether to put herself at the mercy of Prague, she shut herself into her London house (a servant answered the telephone with a nervous, "Madam is out. . ."). ¶ Adolf Hoffmeister, ambassador to Paris, suave, witty writer and cartoonist. His wife, announced the embassy, would "remain in Paris for the time being...