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HISTORY'S MOST FABULOUS

AUCTION

SALE... By Thomas Clayton

on races

bels Alexandria...

in Calro

and

But Egyptologists will be un-

The catalogue will be a mirror Cairo, miscellaneous; hundreds of sults during the war, will .comprise In the vast music room-the

Farouk's by Farouk's Scottish job lots. QUADS of Egyptian made

mentality, Job main auction room-may, be a of sill pyjamas, nylon

lots will list such things as u civil servants are at tailor,

In these safes Negulb's officers jukebox, cheerfully vulgar as a

'stinks' underwear, 1,500 ties all mono found jewel worth millions of seaside arcade, where it would, chemical

sel, two present

working rammed OF, linen handker pounds. The lots and their look more at home. One can cheap-type Gelger counters lucky. Farouk had won' from 10-hour propar- together with damask ing a bizarre catalogue for tablecloths, tot in dozens out is descriptions why sound like almost hear the auctioneer alla Scuracil, Mesures of binoculars, relics from the days

what may be history's most fabulous auction sale- that' of the contents of Farouk's palaces.

hundreds.

Farouk's privy purse keeper shopped оп ई gigentie scale. Toothpaste lubes, 250, and razor blades, 2,000, may be lying in a OK ono of the carved, corner up for sale. Imitation Sheraton chairs, also

poetry; they will include pearls, rubies, emeralds, star sapphires, amethysts, topaz.

Still Working

NEMOLOGISTS are now valu-

say -

energy

15-Inch long gold lipstick fine jukebox still working?"

Holders in scores (gifts Farouk If his assistant presses its handed out to women who Dutton Four, bidders will hear a pleased his eye), and statuettes recording of "My Love For You of nude women in unconven- Makes Me Weep and Wall," one tional poses by the thousand. of the box's twelve recordings- of American hit songs.

Beside it is likely to be an ancient gramophone organ..an

tuning.

Arabic Notes

the tho

·

Calro museums many priceless Pharoahs. Some decorated house he had specially built a replica of an ancient Egyptian Pyramid. These treasures home at the foot of the Great,

of Egypt are being, returned to tho museums ----

The Egyptian Govern ment is considering the sug-

From plabaster, Farouk had had carved many nude statuettes; gestion of holding this auc-

they may be thrown in to make tion next winter. If Gen- And bidders will have A Ing them, but it is certain

a job lot with the keep-No. bid for one chance of seeing the ingenious that only prospective buyers with and planola badly in need of PHILATELISTS may be able to eral Negaib agrees,

of the world's 'rowing' apparatus he bought ad-reflecting mirror

syslem by special permits will view them.

most valuable stamp collections; but evidently never used to keep. vertisements will be inserted which Farouk could keep watch Many are unset, and many are

A lady-in-waling's boudoir coin collectors may buy a collec- his pure in bounds. in the press of Europe, the on his 'safes room' from his bed. in tasteless settings chosen by is likely to be stacked and listed on any museum would be proud

Farouk himself. United States and Russiu,

with soulless efficiency filigree to own. The safes, including one big On a safe, bidders may see a love charms, From there bid- and special flights will bring enough to serve as a vault, and a small unlisted box, one of the ders will wander into the last in bidders.

German safe which Farouk boxe of Syrian sweetmeats thing they ever expected-a 'won' (lo use an army phrase) given away at his wedding feast completely

equipped dentist's Catalogues for the sale from a German bank in Cairo when he married Narriman, surgery, will be as thick as a family bible. They will read like some extravaganza prepared for a Hollywood film king's! super-epic. In them will be listed treasures of the an- cient world, gems, art masterpieces, as well as junk more fitting for a seaside boarding house,

Number one sale would be at Kubben Palace in Cairo. This is the palace which British tanks surrounded in the war, to force Farouk to accept a British-nominated premier paradoxically the

Britain-hating Nahas.

Great Gambler

The blue-eyed boy

BL

Doctors find he has· a better chance of missing rheumatism

By CHAPMAN PINCHER..

LUE-EYED children are' big families, whether

only half as susceptible or poor.

And every order is being filled nt once.

The atom station at Harwell, where the chemicals are made, sent more than 3,000 shipments to 37 countries in the last your.

What could such an auction realise? This garish Aladdin's But these collections were dust-filmed when Neguib's om- cave sale could raise millions. cers moved in to the palaces, in but it is hard to predict what contrast to the big pile of bids may be forthcoming. American comics. These wern And what of the palaces? ft well thumbed and some had is being suggested that they Arabic notes scrawled in the should become national museums margin records of Farouk's 'or Government offices...

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icing makes the cake

Profits are helping to lower the taxpayer defence bills.

It is a personal triumph for a rich 43-year-old ex-German scientist who leads the team responsible for making the chemicals-known technically" na "radio-isotopes," |

to rheumatism as children Dr David Hewitt and Dr Alice with brown or grey eyes, Oxford University doctors Stewart, of Oxoird's Institute of

report.

Social Medicine, investigated 381 children's cases in Shefeld, THROUGH its enormous

Girls are more than twice Bristol, Grimsby,' and Lincoln, 'iron gatea bidders will

as likely, as boys to get Their report is to be sent to the pass into the palace with rheumatism of the brain, Royal College of Physicians, its bewildering, colonnuded which used to be called St miles of corridors. In the Vitus's dance and is now between rheumatism and eve The strong connection found recreation room, looking as known as chorea.

colour suggests that Bome a theatre after a gala first

mechanism hereditary they night,

may find The doctors could find no involved. But the doctors de- evidence of the Farouk evidence that rheumatism is tected nt certain evidence that the great gambler, Europe knew well-Farouk caused by damp houses bad theumatism runs in families.

ventilation, dirt, overcrowd- ing, or poor diet.

다.

BRITISH LEAD

is

He is Dr Henry Seligman, £35-a-week chief of the Isotopes Division 'nt Harwell...

BOAC is fitting out a fleet of Argonaut aircraft with special wing-tip containers so that the dangerous chemicals

be flown more cheaply.

can

Radio-active chemicals.carried

in wing-tips are so far from the pilot that heavy lead shielding-

to absorb the atomic rays can

be eliminated.

new

Copies of photograph

De Havillands are planning to it all future Comet jet airliners i takon by the South China

In his gambling rooms are...

with wing-tip containers. card packa by tho Incorporating amend-Morning Post, South China playing

This would open UD They found that the num- DRITAIN has leaped ahead of illustrated hundreds,

on the

certain radio- Post-Harnid,

and back with nudes of flamboyant ber of rheumatism cases America in a race to make markets for

proportions,

money isotopes which must be delivered shiny chromium jumps sharply in January alomile energy Into- China Mail Staff Photo-roulette wheels, a

thousand and September, when spinning business, it is officially to hospitals quickly because their dice, elegant eighteenth Ivory

power rapidly docnys. announced,

Dr Bellman, who became A graphors are on low in century backgammon tables and schools start again after

three lonely-looking hand-holidays, suggesting that In spite of America's enormous naturalised Briton during the

wartime lead In atom work, carved sets of ivory chessmen, certain forms of the com- Britain is now getting ten times war is now working on a new a gift from a Chinese mandarin plaint may be infectious.

method for using isotopes in Đá many foreign. orders as the

double (U.S. for radio-active chemical Industry which may In the ante-roops - wine And there is more rhou used in medicine, industry, and Harwell's exports again. piled lots of listed clothing, matiem among children in resesich.

Mounted $5.00.

Obtainable from

Unmounted $4.00.

the Morning Post Building,

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to Farouk's father,"

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