• On March 10, 1951, at the St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Beirut, the wedding was celebrated of Wadih Bey al-Qusous to the refined Miss Layla Ghantous. The crowning ceremony was performed by the two venerable prelates, Metropolitan Elia Salibi and Metropolitan Elia Karam, with their clerical retinue. The celebration was attended by the Honorable Minister Plenipotentiary of Jordan in Beirut, Jamal Bey Tuqan, together with the men of the legation and a great number of displaced Palestinians. After the crowning, boxes of sweets were
distributed among those assembled.
At nine in the evening the
groom's father, His Excellency Dr. Hanna Pasha al-Qusous, gave a reception in the hall of the Grand
Hotel (Prince) overlooking the sea, where the guests made their way to a sumptuous buffet while
listening to the jazz band, and the soirée went on until a late hour of the night.
• Following the reply which the government presented to the women of Lebanon, in which it proposed granting them the right to vote in the municipal elections but not in the general elections, the leaders of the women's renaissance in Tripoli and the presidents of
In the picture may be seen a group of the protesting ladies; appearing in the first row, from left to right, are Mesdames: F. Boulos, Dr. Zayni, Iqbal Zouq, Assi, Kahil, Khallat, Shawqi, Silka, Sultan.
