Word: khan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bombay, 85,000 members of the Aga Khan's Khoja Sect turned out to greet their spiritual leader when he arrived by plane for his first visit to India since 1946. The beaming father-in-law of Cinemactress Rita Hay worth was somewhat over the standard 66-lb. limit on passenger baggage. He flew in with 31 pieces of luggage weighing...
Born. To Rita Hayworth (nee Can-sino), 31, cinemactress, and Prince Aly Khan, 38: a daughter (her second child, his third); in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Yasmin (Jasmine). Weight: 5 Ibs. 8 oz. (see CINEMA...
...script had been carefully polished, as a major production should be, and Director Aly Khan had rehearsed the Lausanne police and the Lausanne-Palace Hotel staff time & again. As soon as Leading Lady Rita Hayworth felt the first labor pains, Aly was to pick up a phone on a private wire and simply breathe the secret password: "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre [Maryborough-is going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then...
...Fadeout. Around 11 a.m. Aly's pressagent stepped out of the clinic. "Gentlemen," he said portentously, "will you please stand by for an important announcement by Prince Aly Khan himself?" Rumpled and unshaven, Aly told the world: it was a ½lb. girl, a normal delivery, though "Rita had a very tough time." The baby would be called Yasmin, the Arabic word for jasmine. "I told you," he reminded a newsman, "that premature babies run in my family...