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...Saris & Cha Cha Cha. Last week's game was arranged by an old friend and fellow poloist, J. K. Atal, minister of the Indian embassy. The maharaja and his handsome son and heir, Maharaj Kumar Bhwani Singh, 21, alternated in the No. 4 position on a team of mixed diplomats (Indians, Britons and a Pakistani), against the socialite Washington Polo Club team. The maharaja, a big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.), beaming fellow, turned up in unexotic loafers, levis and leather chaps, managed to score one goal (he has a seven-goal rating) before the weather fagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Hot Afternoon | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...entertain the maharaja royally. As usual. Ambassador Ali came out ahead, with an elaborate garden party celebrating the maharaja's 43rd birthday. In the garden behind the receiving line he thoughtfully installed an attic fan. to cool the royal rear. The maharani gamely learned to dance the Cha Cha Cha, while her husband consumed four bottles of champagne and discoursed on the fine points of pigsticking. When the turbaned waiters brought out a large pink and white birthday cake, the band struck up "Happy Birthday," and the guests sang spiritedly until they reached the last, difficult line: "Happy birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Hot Afternoon | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...sultry, four-times-married Cinemactress Maria Felix, 37, flared fitfully. Recently, when Maria returned by plane to Mexico from Havana, she was clutched in a passionate deathlock by the panting master, was whisked through Lover Rivera's standard regimen of courtship: a daily bouquet of red roses, frenzied cha-cha-cha dancing in flossy nightclubs, morning excursions to the lady's balcony with laired serenaders. But one day last week Diego Rivera landed in a hospital. Mexico City editors began readying obituaries, but as suddenly as he had checked in, Rivera checked out of the hospital and headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Golden Water. A mere five centuries ago, long after the Mongols were driven out, Peking was rebuilt. Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms. Its heads became the main gate, its intestine an open gutter and its navel a well. When Yung Lo had finished, Peking was a series of walled cities within cities, like a Chinese puzzle, box within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: INSIDE RED CHINA'S CAPITAL | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...That Kiss (Peggy Lee; Decca). The incomparable Peggy, in another of her very special arrangements. Kiss, an oldtime cutie-cute number, gets a Latin cha cha cha treatment and blossoms into sheer fantasy. "What is love but a helpin' of an angel cake," croons Peggy, and an insolent flute and a clanking rhythm section confirm the sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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