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...months the Shahinshah, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, has been suffering from severe pains in his royal stomach. The symptoms seemed to point to appendicitis. The Shah wanted to leave the country to have the necessary operation performed, presumably in Western Europe or the U.S. But with his country's Nationalists screaming that anything the West could do they could do better (including running Iran's oilfields), His Majesty decided it would be unwise politically, if wise medically, to seek relief abroad. He stayed at home and suffered. But recently the appendix got too troublesome...
Secretly the Shah summoned Dr. Claude Forkner of Cornell University to Iran and, on Forkner's recommendation for an immediate appendectomy, sent off to the U.S. for New York Hospital's Surgeon in Chief Frank Glenn, plus another U.S. surgeon, plus an expert anesthetist, plus three U.S. nurses...
...Arbor, Mich., His Imperial Highness, Prince Mahmoud Reza Pahlevi, 24, brother of Iran's Shah, got another traffic ticket-his eighth in two years at the University of Michigan-for buzzing along the campus in his Cadillac at 60 m.p.h. Hauled into the police station, he suddenly bolted, tried to reach his car, but was nabbed by cops and brought back weeping to get a court summons...
...regular TIME-readers this view of Iran's importance was no surprise. Back in 1929 when trouble in nearby Afghanistan created a stir in the U.S., the editors pointed out that little-noticed Iran was far more vital to the West. The spur-jangling Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran (father of the present Shah of Shahs) was the subject of three TIME cover stories between 1934 and 1941, was described as "emancipator of his country from British domination." In conditions remarkably similar to those of today, a 1941 story centered around a map titled "Iran-New Focus in Middle...
While covering a meeting of the anti-British Fadayan Islam, Bell ran into a strange sort of trouble. He and three other correspondents jeeped up to the Shah's Mosque, where a Fadayan fanatic had assassinated Prime Minister Ali Razmara. The crowd of Fadayans suddenly became a shouting, angry mob, surrounded the correspondents' jeep, beat on the window curtains and bounced the little car around. After three false starts down dead-end streets, the correspondents escaped. The cause of all the row: the rioters had thought that Bell was Winston Churchill...