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...possible, says Classicist John Finley, to have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson of God [i.e., the son of the Aga Khan]." But the days of ancestor worship are more or less over, and in point of prestige, the Harvard clubman has become the vanishing American. Once, Theodore Roosevelt, 1880, could happily blurt to the Kaiser that his son-in-law was Porcellian ("A mighty satisfactory thing...
...readers sent him a hand-me-down tuxedo which he still wears ("It's getting a little tight under the arms"). He drops names as easily as he gulps an outsize portion of pâte de foie gras. "We had lunch recently with the . . . Aga Khan," writes Buchwald. "His Highness told us he eats only one meal a day-at lunchtime." On a recent Pillsbury Mills press junket, Buchwald quipped that the president of the company was greeted in Paris with: "We knew you were coming so we baked a cake." Buchwald, an unblushing user of the multiple...
Back at the Sands Hotel, there was an impromptu press conference with Rita's two daughters, eight-year-old Rebecca (by her second husband. Orson Welles) and three-year-old Yasmin (by her third, Aly Khan). "Yasmin," Pressagent Freeman proudly announced, "is the only granddaughter of the Aga Khan, and that makes her the onlv female direct descendant of Mohammed." Growled one newsman : "I got news for you. In that religion a woman is nothing." Shortly after, Rita and Dick held their own conference. United Press Newshen Aline Mosby promptly asked an embarrassing question of Argentine-born Haymes...
...French postal strike (see FOREIGN NEWS), which set communications in France back to the 17th century, was too much for the Aga Khan, who had come to Aix-les-Bains for a peaceful fortnight. He left town in a huff (actually, in a green Rolls Royce with red leather upholstery) and headed for the 20th century in Lausanne. Switzerland, followed by his chauffeur, maid and luggage in a second car. "The Aga Khan," it was explained, "receives and sends many letters and needs to make frequent phone calls abroad...
...critic. The column's I-studded name-dropping led one magazine to run a contest on how Swaffer would start his column if Press Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere were killed simultaneously in an accident. The winning lead:" 'Why is everybody so quiet tonight?' said the Aga Khan as we went into supper at the Savoy. I told...