Born. To Narriman Sadek, 26, former Queen of Egypt, the commoner who dumped ex-King Farouk when the army dethroned him, and Dr. Adham el Nakib, 33, a surgeon: their first child, a son; in Cairo.
Married. Lawrence Durrell, 49, prolific Irish author of The Alexandria Quartet, a four-volume "investigation of modern love" turned out in 9½ months of feverish writing; and Claude Ford, 35, shapely, blonde French-Egyptian writer, linguist and trained electrician, his mistress during six years of poverty and sudden success; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. Durrell's second wife, like his demonic heroine, Justine, was...
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