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...Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, who absentmindedly went off with a week's collections. Circulation reached the impressive figure (among the literary magazine set) of 7,000. But Review still lost money. In the summer of 1956 an unlikely angel came to its rescue and became publisher: Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (Harvard '54), second son of the late Aga Khan...
When John succeeded to his title in 1953, he and his wife, an aunt of the new Aga Khan, found Woburn Abbey crumbling from neglect. For two years the couple painted and repaired, rummaged through rooms of stored ancestral treasures. The duke stopped at nothing to advertise his place. He snapped up every TV offer, lectured women's clubs on how to cook venison ("Had to study up for that one"), gave his butler's services as a prize on a U.S. TV show, even invited Marilyn Monroe to spend a night in the bed used by Charles...
According to Khan, construction of the building should start next fall, and it is believed that the Aga Khan, who is expected to return to Harvard next year to complete his senior year, will preside over groundbreaking ceremonies at that time...
Purchase price of the property, located near Radcliffe, and construction costs for the mosque will be jointly paid for by Aga Khan IV '58 and Sadruddin Aga Khan '54. While the actual cost of construction was not disclosed, Khan estimated that the final figure would be somewhere between...
Spiritual leader of a sect of the Islam faith, the Aga left Harvard at the end of his Junior year as karim Aga Khan, and succeeded his grandfather last summer...