Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conqueror (RKO Radio). An American traveler in Central Asia once asked a Mongolian herdsman where America was. "In West Russia," he replied. This picture, which purports to be based on the life of the young Genghis Khan, carries a strong suggestion that, to Hollywood's way of thinking, Mongolia is in the western U.S. The part of the "Perfect Warrior"-a man who became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe...
...Waterloo, Belgium, lives there with his wife and three children. To upgrade his social position, he joined Belgium's Royal Jockey Club, built up a stable of 35 thoroughbreds. From the owners' enclosure at Longchamps he has elbowed his way into the international set of Prince Aly Khan and French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac. As his gentleman jockey-trainer, McLane hopes to hire his friend, Group Captain Peter Townsend, as soon as Townsend's R.A.F. service ends this summer...
Heckscher has played at the number one position on the varsity during the past two seasons. This year he was the intercollegiate champion, going undefeated in college competition. In outside tournaments, he lost only to G. Diehl Mateer, Jr., Henri Salaun, and Azam Khan--three of the top players in the world. He has won the University championship for the past two years, finishing second in his freshman year...
...yachts: the black-hulled, 190-ft. schooner Creole (a 32-man crew) and "a little one," the 103-ft. Eros. Niarchos delights in packing celebrities off on prepaid Mediterranean cruises, although on last year's Mediterranean junket for Party-Thrower Elsa Maxwell and friends (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, Perle Mesta) Niarchos was "too busy" to go along...
...were more sensible than most. He could envision something of what a war of movement and armor would do to France's static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took Alsace Lorraine from us," but a modern Genghis Khan. He knew that Laval, "the Robert Walpole* of the rabble," was squalid and detestable; that Pétain was a defeatist who had to be "kicked into" his victories in World War I, and in World War II, in the absence of all effective French arms, could only snuffle about...