Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yvonne (The San Francisco Story) de Carlo, 29, a Hollywood bachelor girl who has spurned many suitors, yawned and crossed a recent Paris acquaintance, Aly Khan, off her list. Said she: "Princes are no different from other men; Aly is just a nice boy." Then she explained why her sights are set so high: "It is a biological necessity for me to idolize a man for his accomplishments." Her choice above all others: "Albert Einstein [73] ... the perfect companion . . . the only man who could go to the moon with me and know just exactly where he was all the time...
...Khan's Tulyar, the 173rd and richest ($57,335) Epsom Derby. It was the Aga's fifth Derby, and a triumph for Britain's two-bob bettors, who favored Tulyar against the London bookies who picked French horses to finish...
With the help of Riviera sunshine and a heart specialist, the ailing, 75-year-old Ago Khan felt well enough to leave his villa in Cannes, go for a drive with the Begum, and make plans for an early visit...
...with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...