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...Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching ways, he keeps his fleet of Cadillacs and other expensive cars in a garage and rides around in a remodeled 1934 Ford. And with a family of three wives, 42 concubines, 33 children, 40 grandchildren and an estimated 3,400 servants, he carefully and personally plans the household menus for them all each day. A Nizam cannot be too careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Down to His Last Palace | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Grandfatherly Beam. At week's end Ike drove to Gettysburg accompanied by two VIPs who were his weekend house guests: grandchildren David and Barbara Anne. While the President played the Gettysburg golf course, little David practiced his shots under the eye of Pro Dick Sleichter, then followed his grandfather's party around the back nine. Said Sleichter: "You'll be able to beat your father and your grandfather before many years." Father was not present to hear the warning, but grandfather beamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Where Does Aid Go? | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Audrey Bruce, 22, heiress to the Mellon millions, one of three grandchildren of the late U.S. Treasury Secretary (1921-32) Andrew Mellon; and Stephen Currier, 25, consultant to Boston's Swetzoff Gallery; on November 15, in Fairfield, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...free man in the free society. He is in the forefront of the movement for human freedom throughout the world." Zach Chafee intends to remain in this forefront after his retirement. Although he will take more time out to enjoy boating, loud shirts, touring, and his eight grandchildren, Chafee plans to speak out more strongly than ever for the protection of freedom of expression. In retirement, he feels, there will be opportunity to wield an aggressive lance in defense of this freedom...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: The Flag Still Flies | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...urged the Rouse family to "refuse to yield to violence." Rouse, who said he had always lived in white neighborhoods without trouble, confessed he had no stomach for pioneering among "people who start trouble without even seeing me and my wife. I would have held out except for the grandchildren. If they lived here and went to school, the kids would pick on them, maybe rough them up. It could hurt them, maybe ruin their lives." Improvement Association President Thomas J. Collins had a more pointed answer: "It doesn't matter what Father Coogan says now. The Rouses will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Buyer Beware | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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