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Born. To Karim Aga Khan, 37, Harvard-educated spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, who regard him as a 49th-generation direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed, and the Begum Aga Khan, 33, formerly Sarah Croker Poole, a British model: their third child, second_son; in Chambésy...
One imagines that a couple hatefully married for 25 years, rather than bludgeoning each other with such sullen insults, would have developed between them an immense repertory of malice, of silences and nuance. And surely, as in this play's descendant, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the...
Shepard, Putney and Cox is a high Wasp law firm, dominated, in an odd way, by Beeky Ehninger, a wealthy, well-connected robber baron descendant. Twenty-five years before, Beeky Ehninger had saved the firm by reorganizing it, and now it is facing a similar crisis. In the trauma of...
Died. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, 88, longtime head of the Rockefeller banking empire and former ambassador to Britain (1953-57); in Manhattan. The lawyer son of a prominent banking family, Aldrich became a Rockefeller in-law in 1901 when his sister Abby married John D. Rockefeller Jr. Aldrich was later appointed...
It is, agrees Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, an unusual name. At Covent Gar den last year, Basso Cesare Siepi kept asking, "Where is Kanawa?" as he looked around for a Japanese singer. In fact, the elegant Kiri is a New Zealander, the descendant on her father's side of...