Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy week for the indefatigable young Shah of Iran. In Fort Knox, Ky., he played his first slot machine, hit a $10 jackpot which didn't pay off. In Phoenix, Ariz., he bulldogged a steer, rode a palomino named Cream of Wheat Jr., had his first date (dinner and a square dance) since his arrival with an American girl: willowy blonde Northwestern Graduate Joanne Frakes, 23, who later confessed that she had trouble remembering he was a King. "He only acted kingly a couple of times," she said, "mostly he was just like any other nice...
...consorting with the nation's enemies-that there is seldom a chance to singe one with the full, hot blast of democratic hospitality. Last week, however, U.S. officialdom, U.S. hostesses, and U.S. foreign-relations societies had converged with a shout on the genuine article. The target: the Shah of Iran...
...handsome Shah (full title: His Imperial Majesty Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shahinshah of Iran), a lean, sad-eyed young (30) monarch, might have been born & bred for the guinea hen & champagne circuit. He was a bachelor (having divorced beauteous Princess Fawzia of Egypt in 1948), had a gratifyingly deferential way with the ladies, had a democratic fondness for crowds and machinery, and seemed genuinely moved by his reception...
...Shah Goes West. Next day he flew to Detroit in the presidential DC-6 Independence, was immediately hustled off in a long, gleaming motorcade to inspect automobile plants. At the Cadillac factory he asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the line unfinished. He also appeared at two more dinners, greeted his kid brother Mahmoud, a tall, handsome senior at the University of Michigan, and startled a reporter who asked him what he thought of American women. "I see many of them in the streets," he said in puzzled tones...
After the Shah had set off for a ceremonial visit to Manhattan and a month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation...