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In a cozy glimpse of a madcap prince's private life, Ali Khan's longtime (19 years) chauffeur and bodyguard, Emrys Williams, disclosed in his memoirs that life with Ali was rarely dull. Things hummed more than usual during Ali's high-octane fling at marriage with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 22, 1954 | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

The Philadelphia Orchestra had a new guest conductor last week. His name: Eduard van Beinum, principal leader for the past eight years of Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra. The concert was Van Beinum's first in the U.S. (it was his first visit to the country as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dutchman's Debut | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Rabbit's off-field capers also became a legend, even in baseball's rough and ready era. There was the time when the Boston police found Maranville and Jim Thorpe high in a treetop, yowling like banshees as they played Tarzan. There was the hot night in St...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Lot of Laughs | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Members of the older generation greeted the new craze-the first really daffy outbreak by U.S. college students since the days before World War II-with unconcealed irascibility. "It's going too far," said 34-year-old Teacher Gordon Southworth of Riverdale Country School in New York. "This pantie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Epidemic | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Tipping has found two aspects of Harvard that Australian universities lack--the House system and the Saturday football show. "We'd build Houses if we could afford it, but we could never take your football. I went to the Dartmouth game, and I'm still in a bloody daze. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silhouette | 11/9/1951 | See Source »

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