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...Cannes, the rich Aga Khan got richer by selling his unbeaten Tulyar, winner of the Epsom Derby, the St. Leger and five other British stakes races, to the government-sponsored Irish National Stud for $700,000. The news instantly 1) gratified Irish horse breeders, 2) roused Laborite opponents of Premier Eamon de Valera to demand a parliamentary debate on the purchase, "in view of the already heavy burden on the taxpayers...
Divorced. By Rita Hayworth, 34, cinemactress: Prince Aly Khan, 41, playboy-ing eldest son of the Aga Khan, her third husband (she was his second wife); after 3½ years of marriage, one daughter (three-year-old Princess Yasmin, who was placed in her mother's custody) ; in Reno...
Author Somerset Maugham, who once said that the public respects an old writer for his age and not necessarily for his work went to the Riviera villa of his friend the Aga Khan to celebrate his 79th birthday. For the occasion, he had a further observation: "The public gets used to a writer . . . Longevity also allows a writer, if he's old enough, to influence three generations of readers. But it isn't having written a lot that makes one respected. What makes a writer and what makes him a success is, in my opinion, solely his personality...
...past 35 years, Fasig-Tipton has auctioned stock for everyone in the horsy set from the Vanderbilts to the Aga Khan, at an average fee of about 5% of the sale price. Among the biggest prizewinners it has handled: Battlefield, which went for $4,500 and has already earned $430,000; Alsab, which sold for a paltry $700 and earned Owner Mrs. Albert Sabath $350,000; and Man o' War, the equine immortal which went for $5,000 and racked up a gross track income...
...Aga Khan's Tulyar, the 176th running of the St. Leger, second of Great Britain's classic races for three-year-olds; at Doncaster. Winner of the Derby at Epsom Downs, and of all his seven starts this season, the brown colt added $44,577 to his winnings, bringing his total...