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...look at a copy of a movie magazine called Film India, picked up by Producer Ken McEl-downey while making a film in India. One review is headlined: "Jugnu-a Dirty, Disgusting, Vulgar Picture." Sample text: "The entire affair is damn stupid and annoying. As for the players, Nur Jehan makes an utter fool of herself as ... the college girl . . . Her fat face refuses to move, and her song gestures provoke only revulsion and ridicule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fearless Critic | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...story of the death and funeral of Gandhi, however, is best read after a glance south from Delhi, to the place where stands a monument, the Taj Mahal, to another dead Indian. The great Shah Jehan built it to immortalize the memory of his empress' beauty. It is man's most eloquent effort to deny that the body and its beauty dies. It is a triumph of the mortician's art. Some may try to raise a Taj to Gandhi (the prettifiers will scarcely be able to stand statues of that ugly body). But Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...delicatessen on the way up." The Chinese delegation was arriving at LaGuardia field, and an "Arrival" aide hurried out to meet them, only to find the plane landed and the dignitaries indistinguishably entangled with 55 welcoming Chinese. From another office in the Empire State Building, redheaded U.N. Protocol Chief Jehan de Noue darted constantly to LaGuardia to meet more distinguishable arrivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Omdurman to Flushing | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Custody When blonde beauteous Katharine Winterbotham Buchanan, 49, married an Indian Oxonian from Madras named Kumar Jehan Seesodia-Warliker last May, Chicago society, startled, warmly debated the race issue. But the union outraged the bride's divorced husband, Thompson Buchanan, who had himself meantime displayed an adventurous spirit by marrying Authoress Joan (Cradle of the Deep) Lowell. He marched into a Kentucky court, asked and got custody of his 9-year-old son and namesake on the ground that Seesodia-Warliker, no Caucasian, was unfit to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Custody | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...sale in London: two Rembrandts, one a landscape at ?1,550, one a portrait of Shah Jehan, one-time Emperor of Hindustan at ?680. Art-man Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, July 5) snatched them, as is his habit. Two drawings by Da Vinci were taken by Thomas Agnew and Sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Purchases | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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