Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voices of Caesar and Napoleon, of Genghis Khan, George Washington and Pontius Pilate were never heard by posterity. But the voices of the captains, kings, heroes and villains of the recent past are on record and can be heard as long as the records last. The latest collection,* in an album of five Columbia records called I Can Hear It Now . . . , contains excerpts from famous broadcasts...
Also down to Havana, but only for a visit, went beauteous Rita Hayworth. Her friend, the Aly Khan, happened to come along in the same plane from Mexico City, but Rita said it was only a coincidence (he is still married to wife No. 1; her divorce from husband No. 2, Orson Welles, has just become final). Rita's trip, she announced, was merely "to see the sights and rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled...
...near-great.* When she was a child in a Washington suburb, a kindly gentleman named Cordell Hull let her ride his ponies. She has swapped cabled pleasantries with her friend Winston Churchill. An admirer, Lord Beaverbrook, once gave her a party attended by such eager guests as the Aga Khan and Rudolph Valentino. Jock Whitney, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Kent, Ronald Colman-they have all flitted through the spotlight that trails Tallulah wherever she goes. In London, Lawrence of Arabia used to run out to get her fresh cigarettes when her supply...
...Brussels airport last week, Bayeux, the fastest horse in Belgium, was coaxed into a plane. Two hours later, the plane put down at England's Bovingdon Airport to pick up another passenger. The Aga Khan's grey colt Nathoo, winner of the Irish Derby, was taken aboard. The flying horses were U.S.-bound on a forlorn hope: they were going to meet Citation, the greatest race horse...
...race that day. He got left at the post. He really couldn't be blamed: in Europe they didn't have these newfangled starting gates, the horses raced on grass instead of dirt, and most of the tracks ran clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The Aga Khan's Nathoo did a little better. For a mile and a furlong, he hung on the coattails of the leaders before giving it up as a bad job. He was beaten by 31½ lengths...