International: Mary & the Prince

Prince Mohamed Ibn-Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia performs his princely functions in a princely manner. With his brothers, he attended the San Francisco Conference in long white robes and created an impression of stateliness and dignity, called on the U.S. State Department, inspected U.S. factories and Niagara Falls, dined with countless Arab-American groups, bought new automobiles, radios, phonographs and typewriters, lived splendidly in an eighth-floor suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.*

But, like Haroun al Rashid, Prince Mohamed occasionally doffed his princely garb and mingled with commoners.

In Detroit the bearded, 32-year-old Prince had been introduced to a comely 22-year-old Moslem-American stenographer, Mary Mohammed. Mary Mohammed...

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