Word: maharajahs
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...ardent amateur racing-car driver in his youth, he traveled much, lecturing and big-game hunting-a hobby that brought him to visit his friend, the Maharajah of Mysore. There, Denis Doyle, aged 43, died last week of a heart attack...
...city of Jodhpur (pop. 250,000) last week, a woman named Sugan Kunwar mourned her husband, Brigadier Jabar Singh. The brigadier had been a man who played polo, spoke English with an Oxford accent and administered the Maharajah of Jodhpur's estates and palaces; but Sugan, married to him for 27 years, had chosen to remain in the veiled seclusion of purdah. When the brigadier died, Sugan put on her wedding dress of red silk, threaded with gold, and tied jasmine and gold ornaments into her black and lustrous hair...
...Galahad, Horatio at the bridge and Robin Hood, all wrapped up into one." The description is incomplete. Playing a rough & ready adventurer, Ladd lands in the Indian state of Gundahar with a planeload of guns and ammunition at a time when bandit forces are converging on the Maharajah's palace. The Maharajah's adviser (Charles Boyer), a Gandhi-like character, is an adamant believer in the virtues of nonresistance, an attitude which mystifies Ladd...
Even for Payne, 1951 was a pretty busy year; six full-length books, including two novels (Red Lion Inn, and, under the pseudonym Richard Cargoe, Maharajah), a book of short stories (The Blue Negro), and three nonfiction works (Red Storm over Asia, The Fathers of the Western Church, The Marshall Story). And Author Payne shows no signs of slowing up. He has eight more books in the works at the moment. One, a study of the tramp created by Charlie Chaplin, is finished and delivered to the publisher. Among the others are a life of Christ, a travel book about...
...Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because it is so much fun to make up in the evening...