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MARRIED. Mukarram Jah Barkat Ali Khan, 45, eighth Nizam (ruler) of the former Indian principality of Hyderabad and heir to what was one of the world's great fortunes; and Helen Simmons, 31, daughter of a retired Australian steel executive and mother of the couple's 15-month-old son Azam; he for the second time, she for the first; in Perth, Australia, where he has a half-million-acre sheep ranch...
...Fifteen years later, after Smith was murdered, many Mormons followed the dynamic Young on a famous trek to Utah, where they flourished. The Reorganized Church developed from those, including the prophet's widow Emma, who stayed behind, contending that Young was a usurper. The one true spiritual heir to Smith, they believed, was his diffident oldest son, Joseph...
Those two plays might better be called Fathers and Sons. While he is battling the Percys, Henry is also fighting for the loyalty and affection of his son and heir, Prince Hal. Hal, that "nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales," as Hotspur derisively calls him, has given himself up to bad living and bad companions, led by the fat and riotous Falstaff; his revolt against duty is a more serious threat to Henry's kingdom than Hotspur and all his kin. The distraught Henry wishes that Hotspur had been his son and it could be proved that "some night...
...diminutive wood sculptures and paper lamps, Noguchi's touch has never ceased to be subtle, precise and informed. He is entitled to be seen, in a time characterized by minor and peripheral talent, as one of the very few surviving masters of the modernist tradition: the chief living heir, not only to his teacher Brancusi but also to the classical Japanese feeling for material and nature...
...helped create one of the extreme moments of dandyist revolt and modernist disgust. But today the only interesting thing about Dali is the obsessive grip of his pose. He has convinced a public that could hardly tell a Vermeer from a Velásquez that he is the spiritual heir to both painters. And he has done so, not through art but by the diffusion of small anecdotes. Everything is calculated, literally down to the last hair: even his mustache is lifted from Velásquez's portraits of Philip...