Word: maharaj
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...swarthy, sixtyish, learned Balliol-graduate Sir Maharaj Singh, one of India's principal delegates to the Assembly. Author, statesman and educator, Sir Maharaj taught himself ventriloquism some 30 years ago (to amuse his children). Last week, with all the exuberance that earned him an Oxford "half-blue" in featherweight boxing and made him a top Indian tennis "champion, Delegate Singh offered to show off his talent before a meeting of a trusteeship subcommittee. To help him he had a brand-new stooge named Uno, just purchased for $85 in Times Square...
...This fellow's still new," explained Sir Maharaj, "we haven't got quite used to each other yet." Committee members, press and public jammed the committee room. Sir Maharaj and Uno were just about to go into their routine. (Sample, as seen later by a TIME reporter-Singh: "Who're you?" Uno: "Oh, I'm Uno." Singh: "Do you have to use many languages out there?" Uno: "Oh, I get along on me Irish.") Then who should stalk in but austere U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles. He whispered a discreet, wholly unofficial word in Singh...