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Sadri Khan Aly's brother and the Aga's son, and Rita Hayworth's brother-in-law pepped up here as a full-fledged member of the Class...
That night the King turned up at the Casino with the Aga and the Begum, the Aga's son, Aly Khan, and his wife, Rita Hayworth. Farouk got into a baccarat game and played on until 5 a.m., winning 20 million francs. The next night he won 15 million, the third night he began to lose. The Casino refused to give out statistics on the losses...
...Maiden. In front of the new white laboratory of Workman's New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro stands a brick-red statue of an ethereal young girl holding a bird at her bosom. The students call her "the desert maiden," but Dr. Workman says she is Santa Rita, "Patron Saint of the Impossible," and just the right patroness for a physics...
...Santa Rita used to be in Albuquerque, where her bird was thought to be a dove. Now that she has moved to Socorro and the rainmaking studies are going full blast around her, it has been noticed that her bird looks more like a duck. It holds its head back on its shoulders in a way doves seldom do. Dr. Workman considers this apparent metamorphosis a favorable omen...
...Rome's open-air opera in the Baths of Caracalla, two well-lighted Hollywood stars attended a performance of Verdi's Aïda. At the end of the first act, the audience spotted Princess Aly (Rita Hayworth) Khan sitting in the first row, excitedly howled "Viva Bellissima Rita!" The Princess, wearing a plain white evening gown embellished with white flowers, rose, smiled and bowed to her admirers. No one seemed to notice Signora Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini, who kept quietly to herself in the tenth...