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Divorced. By Prince Muazzam Jah, 43, second son of the Nizam ("richest man in the world") of Hyderabad: Princess Niloufer, 38, beauteous niece of the last Turkish Caliph, Abdul Medjid II ; for unnamed reasons when the Prince followed Moslem divorce proceedings by intoning "Talak" (divorce) three times before two witnesses; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Hyderabad...
...near 80, but it is one of the least satisfactory of Shaw's. It might by now have been thankful for shelf space without aspiring to stage production, had not Katharine Hepburn dared the termagant title role in London last summer and achieved a sensation. As the richest and presumably the most roughshod-riding woman in. England-possessing 30 million pounds and probably 40 million horsepower-she makes every entrance an eruption and every exit a bombardment...
...Some of the richest Indian diggings in North America...
...British friends, this is a wasteful and luxurious system that only the richest country in the world can afford. I suggest it needs a tightening...
During the 1950 election campaign, Brennan discovered that the Kefauver Crime Committee had asked Chicago Police Captain Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert to testify. Gilbert, a lavish spender, known in Chicago as "the world's richest cop," was Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff. Because of his wretched record as a cop, the usually pro-Democratic Sun-Times supported his Republican opponent, John E. Babb. Under pressure from the Sun-Times, Democrat Estes Kefauver admitted that Tubbo Gilbert had appeared at a closed session, but he would give out none of the testimony...