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...help in the Berlin airlift. Ten hours later, Seaboard's was the first airlift plane to reach Germany from the U.S. A week after Korea, Seaboard hit the unfamiliar Pacific airlift route from San Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish manufacturer ships sausage skins from Teheran, thereby outfoxing hijackers who raided his camel caravans...
...Aga Khan's Tulyar, the 173rd and richest ($57,335) Epsom Derby. It was the Aga's fifth Derby, and a triumph for Britain's two-bob bettors, who favored Tulyar against the London bookies who picked French horses to finish...
After World War I, Van Dongen said goodbye to the old life. Instead of the acrobats and gypsy girls and black-stockinged nudes that had preoccupied him, he turned more & more to painting celebrities. The Aga Khan sat for him ("best model I ever had . . . nice and patient"); so did the vivacious Comtesse Anne-Elisabeth de Noailles, who "gesticulated so much that one of her breasts slipped out of her blouse, so I painted her that way." In time the great and near-great began calling him Kiki, and whenever he gave a party, they flocked to it dressed...
...Within two weeks of my divorce," says Cobina, "America entered the war." President Wilson could scarcely have timed it better, for when the first Yanks arrived in Paris they found Cobina there to entertain them. She buddied around with General "Jack" Pershing, Barney Baruch, Jesse Jones and the Aga Khan. The spiritual ruler of millions of Ismailian Moslems was famous in those days, Cobina remembers, for his vast appetite at table and a fabulous bed, large enough for 24 people...
...choked with gondolas and motorboats. Floodlights limned the arriving guests while gapers gawked from windows made available by neighboring palace owners at up to 80,000 lire a head. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among the invited, never showed up. Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lido, stayed home. The Aga Khan (in Venetian domino), Barbara Hutton (dressed as Mozart, at a reputed cost of $15,000), Prince and Princess Chavchavadze (whose noble name is pronounced like a sneeze), and practically everyone else who was anybody was there. Shortly before midnight, a flourish of trumpets sounded, and the guests...