Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Khan, multimillionaire spiritual ruler of some 12,000,000 Ismaili Moslems in India and Africa, took a constructive attitude toward the postwar world by buying some new horses and lining up a new bride.* The pumpkin-shaped sportsman, now living in wartime exile in Switzerland, celebrated his colt Tehran's winning of the $22,000 St. Leger (rhymes with Dillinger) Stakes by buying several horses at England's famed Newmarket sales. The 67-year-old potentate also posted the banns for his fourth marriage (Begum No. 3 divorced him last year). His new intended is tall, black-haired...
Common Sense has published a remarkable document - five letters exchanged between Mohandas K. Gandhi (then a political prisoner in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona) and India's Viceroy, Viscount Wavell. In his foreword Newsman Louis Fischer, who made the letters public, claimed that Gandhi's recent conciliatory proposal to Wavell for Indian independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader...
...witnessed one of the great nomadic migrations that take place every year when thousands of human beings and hundreds of thousands of animals migrate from the southern plateaus to the mountains in the north (just as their ancestors did thousands of years ago). I became chummy with the Khan of the tribe, one Fatula Poor Satib. He asked me to autograph something for him. And what do you think he pulled from his robe as he sat astride his big, white, handsome horse? Nothing else but a copy of TIME...
...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...
News of his death came as a shock to most big-game hunters. Klein had tracked for many of them - F. Trubee Davison, Paul Rainey, Archibald Harrison, the Aga Khan, Lady MacKenzie, Philip Plant. In over 30 years of following game trails, he captured or killed thousands of birds, snakes and beasts, from diminutive dik-diks to giant bull elephants. He stopped counting his lions in 1928, when the British limited each hunter to three kills a year. By that time he had bagged...