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There was something in the air. At the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan was moved to dance in public for the first time in 17 years, happily jounced his globular person (250 Ibs.) through a rumba with Ballerina Yvonna Chauvire (no Ibs.). In Chicago, retired Soapmaker Walter R. Kirk (Jap Rose, Kirk's Flakes) was sued for a separation by Wife Louisa, who said he was 72, charged him with adultery in 22 instances. (Not so, said Kirk-besides...
...Aga Khan, balanced against diamonds in Tanganyika in a repeat of last spring's ceremony in Bombay (TIME, March 18), was down a half-pound; but at 243 there was still no cause for worry...
...fabulously rich, famously rotund Aga Khan came to Bombay to be publicly weighed, like any of his jockeys. Unlike any jockey, the Aga Khan tipped the scale at 243½ lbs. While the spiritual leader of Ismailite Mohammedans sat in a gold-brocaded chair bestowing blessings on the throng, bearers piled glittering diamonds on the other side of the scale. Their value was about $2,200,000. Fifty thousand Ismaili, crowded into Bombay for the occasion, were humbly grateful when the Aga Khan gave the money back to them, in trust...
...Aga Khan, pumpkin-shaped, 264-lb. spiritual ruler of some twelve million Ismaili Moslems, was the cause of a commotion in diamonds. From London came reports that great quantities of rough-cuts, gifts from his Moslems, were piling up against his forthcoming Diamond Jubilee, when the Khan will be weighed in diamonds. He will keep the stones, and give charity their money equivalent (some...
...Said the Rev. Francis J. Connell, a professor at the Catholic University of Washington, D.C.: "The use of the atomic bomb was simply murder." ¶ The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of tens of millions of Moslems, declared in Calcutta that he favored the creation of a "supernational state" to regulate bomb production. Barring that, he would feel safest if the U.S. kept the secret to itself...