Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of pants with the bottoms turned up (see cut) appeared at the flossy Mandelieu course in Cannes, France, played a bit of golf, went home. One good reason startled club officials did not give the old fellow the bum's rush: he was the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan...
...Machinations of Enemies." Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan blamed the disorders on "the machinations of the sworn enemies of Pakistan." His opposition to Nehru's proposed fact-finding commission was based on the official argument that such a commission would merely "entangle both governments in the barbed wire of controversy." Then, when Nehru suggested that both leaders tour Bengal together, as they had toured the stricken Punjab in 1947, he again refused. Previous experience, said Liaquat Ali, "did not indicate that such a move would have any substantial results...
...silver-haired Owner Charles S. Howard, who bought the horse on a tip from Prince Aly Khan, Noor's victory was worth $97,900. It was the third time in 13 runnings of the big race that Howard had taken the grand prize; in 1939 he won with an Argentine horse named Kayak II, in 1940 with Seabiscuit...
Hearstling Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, who is a natty dresser, named 1950's Worst Dressed Men of the World. Top of the list: Prince Aly Khan, for going to the races in yellow socks, orange shoes and a green tie. A close sec ond: Texas' Senator Tom Connolly (for looking "like a country bumpkin" while heading for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee). Runners-up: Manhattan Socialite Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (for not buying a new hat "in the last twelve years"); Wrestler Gorgeous George (chiefly for his peroxide curls...
Prince Aly Khan, vacationing with wife Rita Hay worth and their families in Gstaad, Switzerland, made a fast turn on a ski slope, fell, broke his right leg in three places. Said the doctor: three months...