Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's rising Cinemactress Diana (A Kid for Two Farthings) Dors, 24, and Hollywood's seasoned (44) Ginger Rogers bumped into each other on the French Riviera at a reception in the Aga Khan's villa near Cannes. There for the annual International Film Festival, the platinum pair looked strikingly sisterly - a tribute to Ginger's durable beauty...
...frail old Author Somerset Maugham, complaining of cold feet. Near by sat swart Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon, whose ownership of the gambling casino is a far more significant fact in Monte Carlo than the rule of Prince Rainier. Filling other rows were the aging, wheelchaired Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum, the French Academy's Andre Maurois, Broadway's soignée Ilka Chase, and Jack Kelly's pals from Philly...
Alfred S. Arkley, Melvin L. Bristol, Algernon C. Churchill, Amyn A. Khan, John B. Powers, Hanson C. Robbins, Donald B. Stephenson (captain), William S. Talbot, John G. McGarrahan '58 (manager...
...Accursed," as the Great Khan was known, did lots of nasty things to lots of people. When he was still a boy, he murdered one of his halfbrothers, and before his death at 65, his armies had slaughtered millions from the Dnieper to the China Sea. Wayne's performance should go a long way toward paying the old warrior back. He portrays the great conqueror as a sort of cross between a square-shootin' sheriff and a Mongolian idiot. The idea is good for a couple of snickers, but after that it never Waynes but it bores...
...tackle caught reading Swinburne, "I take you fer wife." But as he pulls Hayward hayward, Hayward pulls away. "For me," she snarls, "there is no ease while you live, Mongol." Says John: "Yer beooduful in yer wrath." He takes her on a trip to the court of the Wang Khan, where they watch a sinuous dancing girl from Samarkand. After a night in Samarkand, John taunts her, "All other wimmin are like the secon' pressing uh the grape." Going at it that way, the terror of two continents takes almost two full hours to win one girl...