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...them with curtain cords, locked them in a bathroom, and-undetected by a private secretary asleep upstairs-systematically ransacked the house. Soon afterwards they walked away with a wad of bank notes and the French underworld's biggest haul of stolen jewelry (estimated value: $285,000) since the Aga Khan's wife was robbed of $500,000 worth on the Riviera in 1949. It was not. however, so much the size of the haul that gave the burglary its special interest as the identity of the householder and the fact that on his return in the Buick...
Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, will become the first Aga Khan Professor of Iranian at Harvard University...
Dean McGeorge Bundy announced yesterday that the Aga Khan Professorship, recently established by the Moslem religious leader of the Ismaili community, with the intention of "preserving and transmitting to future generations knowledge of the rich heritage of the Iranian past," will become effective on July...
...Aga Khan Professorship is the first chair established at Harvard by a foreigner since the Rumford Professorship of Physics was founded in 1819 by Benjamin Thompson...
...Mystery," she had not returned to her old trade as a topnotch writer of mystery stories (Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon). She was talking about the mystery of life after death, subject of a new London Sunday Times series (among future contributors: Bertrand Russell, the Aga Khan). Already noted as a translator of Dante and an able amateur theologian, Anglican Author Sayers gave a cogent and striking version of one Christian view of the afterlife...