Word: durrani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib and Mir Taqui Mir are not exactly U.S. household words. But Minute Rice is, and it is the wish of its inventor, Afghan Immigrant Ataullah K. (Dial-Durrani, that the two little-known 19th century Persian poets roll trippingly off American tongues. Ozai-Durrani's will, probated six weeks after his death at 66 in Denver, leaves more than half of his $1,000,000 estate to Harvard "or some such nonprofit institution" to translate the poets' works into English and underwrite biographies. Ozai-Durrani's lawyers are being besieged by half...
Died. Ataullah K. Ozai-Durrani, 66, an immigrant Afghan who in 1941 walked into the Manhattan office of a General Foods executive, set up his portable stove and demonstrated a quick-cooking rice he had developed, so handy that General Foods marketed it as Minute Rice, which with its imitations accounts for 25% of all rice cooked by U.S. housewives, filled its inventor's ricebowl with royalties estimated at more than $1,000,000; of cancer; in Denver...