Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinemactress Rita Hayworth finally arrived in Reno to divorce Aly Khan. Meanwhile, gambling 100,000-franc chips in Monte Carlo, with Cinemactress Gene Tierney at his side for luck and relaxation, Aly shrugged off comment. Said he: "I don't know anything about it. Nobody tells me anything...
Author Somerset Maugham, who once said that the public respects an old writer for his age and not necessarily for his work went to the Riviera villa of his friend the Aga Khan to celebrate his 79th birthday. For the occasion, he had a further observation: "The public gets used to a writer . . . Longevity also allows a writer, if he's old enough, to influence three generations of readers. But it isn't having written a lot that makes one respected. What makes a writer and what makes him a success is, in my opinion, solely his personality...
...past 35 years, Fasig-Tipton has auctioned stock for everyone in the horsy set from the Vanderbilts to the Aga Khan, at an average fee of about 5% of the sale price. Among the biggest prizewinners it has handled: Battlefield, which went for $4,500 and has already earned $430,000; Alsab, which sold for a paltry $700 and earned Owner Mrs. Albert Sabath $350,000; and Man o' War, the equine immortal which went for $5,000 and racked up a gross track income...
...hilarious New Year's Eve party in an exclusive Cannes nightclub gave birth to a new form of fun: pelting the aging Ago Khan with green cotton balls soaked in champagne. Said the indignant target: "This is terrible. I do not like this." Among the pelters: son Aly Khan and Cinemactress Gene Tierney, his latest Côte d'Azur romance...
...from his villa on The Riviera for a visit to Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season...