Word: jah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Walashan Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London...
While the Markevitch children presented Nadia with a $3,000 diamond bought by members of the Boulangerie the world over, the guests launched into an exuberant chorus composed for the occasion by Francis Poulenc. "Vive Nadia, the dear Nadia Boulanger, the very dear Nadia, Al-le-lu-jah!" Later, musicians performed another birthday tribute: a cantata by Composer Jean Françaix for five strings, five winds and six-handed piano. Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic...
...indignation in the U.S. press, sorely annoyed the Ceylonese, and indelibly marked himself as durable headline material. What was Gluck's offense? He admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in secret session, that he could not pronounce the name of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal (Jah-wah-har-lahl) Nehru or rattle off the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister (Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike...
...same can be said of pomaded, 49-year-old Azam Jah, Prince of Berar and eldest son of India's wizened, 72-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad. Nobody knows exactly how rich the Prince's father is. For one thing, a pack of rats recently chewed their way through $8,000,000 in currency stored in moldy trunks in the Nizam's palace vaults, leaving their value in question. For another, the old Nizam abruptly fired a man hired to count and appraise his trunks full of jewels when he heard the job would take a year...
...Nizam's son is a different matter. Black-eyed, balding and debonair, a married man whose wife lives far away in London, Prince Azam Jah passes his days playing polo, sticking pigs and studying the racing form, his evenings frolicking in a tiled swimming pool with the 50 ladies of his harem. *Having all these pleasures on a monthly allowance of $10,000 might well be a strain on others, but for Azam it was easy. He simply ran up bills. After all, he assured his bookies, he would one day be Nizam...