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Franklin goes unsung in the U.S., but is famous in the exotic cities listed on its Manhattan front door: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran. Lahore, Dacca, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta. In those places, far from Manhattan's Publishers' Row, Franklin in ten years has guided the printing of 26,477,800 books in such exotic languages as Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Bengali, Malay and Indonesian...
...Louis to The Universe and Dr. Einstein. Ferdinand in Twi. Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class of an orphan asylum. Out of this grew a healthy new Iranian textbook industry...
Americans, it would seem, are depressingly stolid, unemotional people. When a similar event occured recently in Iran, the populace filled the streets of Tehran, singing and shouting; a bank holiday was declared; and the Shah bestowed lavish gifts upon his happy people. Even in England, the event was a cause for some well-mannered public celebration...
...TEHRAN, Iran, April 7--Patrols hunting the dwindling gang of bandit chief Dadshah for the massacre of three Americans have found his pregnant third wife dead on the trail, apparently sacrificed to speed the flight...
...TEHRAN, Iran, March 27--The Shah ordered his imperial troops and the gendarmerie today to search day and night for an American woman and a murder-kidnap gang that carried her off in the southeastern desert...