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Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Rudolph Valentino's final film, Son of the Sheik, opens a summer series of condensed silent sagas. This one co-stars Vilma Banky...
...jazzman's dream. With Bhumibol and Benny were Gene Krupa on the skins, Teddy Wilson on the piano, Urbie Green on the trombone, Jonah Jones on trumpet, Red Norvo on vibes. The King stood them toe-to-toe for two hours, paid his royal respects to The Sheik of Araby (in 17 eardrumming choruses), savored Honeysuckle Rose, swung low On the Sunny Side of the Street. Near session's end, Benny decorated him with a new Selmer sax. The King will use it in his own dozen-man modern band, in which he stars (with a onetime Thai...
...flow of international visitors. "This seems to be my American season," said he last week, after conferring with a stream of U.S. bankers and executives. He logs well over 150 hours of air travel a year, on a recent visit to the Middle East dined with Qatar's Sheik Ahmed (he thoughtfully brought along a rocking horse for the sheik's son), conferred with Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, was received by the Prime Minister of the Sudan. Says Managing Director Fred Stephens: "You always wonder what kind of visa John will pull out of his pocket...
...desert sheik, Daddah spent his youth following his father's camel flock. But after his father sent him away to a French-run school in St.Louis de Sénégal, Daddah rose swiftly, serving first as a French army interpreter, later studying at the Sorbonne, where he met and married a pretty French fellow law student. When General Charles de Gaulle came to power, Daddah was Mauritania's only lawyer, and therefore the obvious man to lead his country to self-rule under the semiautonomous government allowed by the French...
...Habib Bourguiba recently clamped down on the all-night nightclubs where celebrants make up for daylight denials, and boldly persuaded considerable numbers of his urban coreligionists to break their Ramadan fast this year and get on with their normal daily work (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week Cairo's Sheik Hassan Mamoun, mufti of the United Arab Republic's southern region, handed down new interpretations that relaxed a few of the rigors of Egypt's observance during Ramadan, which this year ends March...