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Married. The Aga Khan, 67, melon-faced Mohammedan multimillionaire (TIME, Oct. 2) ; and Yvette La Brousse, 38, '"Miss France" of 1932; he for the fourth time ; in Vevey, Switzerland...
Common Sense has published a remarkable document - five letters exchanged between Mohandas K. Gandhi (then a political prisoner in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona) and India's Viceroy, Viscount Wavell. In his foreword Newsman Louis Fischer, who made the letters public, claimed that Gandhi's recent conciliatory proposal to Wavell for Indian independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader...
...heater is not to be confused with the anthracite-burning Swedish "Aga" stove which, operating on a different principle, burns only 8 Ibs. of coal a day, but is much more expensive ($300 to $600), is used only as a kitchen range...
...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...
News of his death came as a shock to most big-game hunters. Klein had tracked for many of them - F. Trubee Davison, Paul Rainey, Archibald Harrison, the Aga Khan, Lady MacKenzie, Philip Plant. In over 30 years of following game trails, he captured or killed thousands of birds, snakes and beasts, from diminutive dik-diks to giant bull elephants. He stopped counting his lions in 1928, when the British limited each hunter to three kills a year. By that time he had bagged...