On the same day that young Mr. Rouse was roller-skating with his dog in Washington, D.C., Ahmed Fuad Pasha was proclaimed King Fuad I of Egypt, making him one of only two kings in the country's mondern history.
He is mostly remembered for his son, who had a flamboyant if rocky and odd history. Faud himself had an unhappy relationship with Farouk's mother, and indeed with both of his queens. His first wife, Shivakiar Khanum Effendi, was his first cousin once removed. They divorced in 1898, but Faud was shot in the throat by her brother during a dispute with her. He survived that. In 1919 he married Nazli Sabri, who was the maternal great-granddaughter of Suleiman Pasha, a French Napoleonic officer who converted to Islam. She outlived Fuad but immigrated to the United States, reversing her great-grandfather's act, and converting to Catholicism. She possessed the largest jewelry collection in the world. Her youngest daughter Fathia also converted to Catholicism.
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was released from Sing Sing and would go on in his criminal career, fairly shortly becoming the head of what was called "Murder Inc". The latter was an organization in which the Mafia could arrange for contract killings through non Mafia members, thereby insulating them from implication in them. Buchalter was executed for his crimes in 1944.
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