Ribald Classic: The Thieves Of Love

June, 1964

In Baghdad there once lived Ali, a man so fond of beautiful women that he all but lost his wits when one was mentioned and he could not have her. Being poor and fully cognizant that only wealth would enable him to meet the needs of his vigorous body and passionate spirit, he resolved to become wealthy so as to provide himself with that solace and panacea for which his flesh craved and his soul yearned. Before he was 30, therefore, by hard work and sacrifice, he had become a man of means, had bui...