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Portly Sir Hari Singh was maladroit as a lover in his youth, despotic as a Maharajah in his prime and, in his declining years, the man who stuck the" world with the Kashmir problem. Last week he died after a heart attack at the age of 65. Republic of India flags in Jammu City were lowered to half staff, stores and businesses reverently closed, and thousands shuffled through the streets in mournful procession...
Dead Shot. Jaipur's maharajah offered her a ride on a ceremonial elephant. As Elizabeth eyed her prospective conveyance, the voice of Prince Philip was heard. "Fasten your seat belt," he cried. The Queen grinned and clambered up to her seat. Two days later, Philip took stage center himself when the maharaja put on a tiger hunt. The first day neither the efforts of more than 100 beaters nor the lure of scores of staked-down bullocks and goats produced even a single cub. But on the second day a handsome, 9-ft. 8-in. tiger loped into sight...
Circulation now over 3,000,000 UNLESS you were a guest of India's Maharajah of Bharatpur during the 1930s, your chances of seeing a current issue of TIME anywhere outside North America were slim. The maharajah was then paying $585.60 a year to have his copy air-expressed to him each week; 20,000 other overseas subscribers waited for their copies to reach them by ship...
...cabin crew of live," promises at mealtime that "the hostesses will slip on gold smocks, swish up and down the aisle" to serve the passengers. KLM proffers "real china at dinner." Air-India puffs its coming jet service as "the airline that treats you like a maharajah . . . Ask any potentate...
...trumpets like the sound of the New York opening-night audience giving a play its unreserved approval." After all the agonies of the road, that is what happened with Once in a Lifetime, and then the beggar-playwright, rattling his cup for a kind word, was transformed into a maharajah. The day after Once in a Lifetime opened, Moss Hart staged a melodramatic epilogue: he rushed his family out of their cheap apartment, forcing them to leave the very plates on the table and the toothbrushes in their racks, and moved them to a posh Manhattan hotel; along...