Paris
TODAY, weeks after
Aly Khan's death in
a motor crash some of the difficult questions which his death has posed-can now be answered.
First, regarding the future of his horses. This cannot yet be decided except on a short- term basis.
Aly Khan did in fact leave
a will. This will is a Swiss one, which is scarcely Bur- prising because the bulk of the Khan family's fortune is in Swiss bouks.
Swiss will
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THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1960.
from
The family
tussle over
Aly's horses
racing properties will remain as understand. Rita Hayworth will valuable, as ever.
have a say in the destinies of the stable.
There is now considérable de
in the Khan family
Furthermore # Swis will sension ensures two things:
regarding the future of Aly's racing intrests. Thut dissension 1: that its detalls, will never is important beents under the be publicly revealed;
terms of the will Aly's son Karim
Gecide on
tables.
There are also subeldiary heirs. like Aly's model friend Betting. Then, too, there is the Beaum Aga Khan, who benefits from the
the late Aga Khan.
SAM WHITE
Meanwhile, reading a family decision on this subject Karim has decided to continue racing horses in Frener Aly Khan's under their old colours until the end of the year.
He will also face them in England-again until the end of
2: That by adding this further Aga Khan cannot by himself will under the terms imposed by the year but undre, romecre
will
proof of
Swis deanlella which is provided by a Swiss will, Aly Khan's hel have an excellent chance of escaping
drath ell French duties on his race horses in France.
This makes it unlikely that his Freach stud and his French race horses. numbering 70, will be broken up to meet death duty charges. In short, his French
the future of the
The heirs
The will rules that their fate must be decided jointly by ell Aly's heirs, Principal heirs are Aly's three children, two sons and his daughter Yasmin by his marriage to Rita Hayworth. She is under age and therefore, I
Love or
All have varying interests some would undoubtedly prefer to sell, others like the Begum zre
adamant that the stable should remain, in accordance with the
late
Aga Khan's wish, the property of the Khan_family.
The family is riven by dispute on this and other sublects and is only united in its opposition to the Begum's desire to play a role in their affairs.
laughter
which do you like?
THERE'S nothing an Englishwoman likes
more than a good laugh. And I include love. The heroes we pay to see in celluloid are the idealised images of the men we'd like to see across the breakfast table.
And, who are our two Lop' stars! Not men with the
OT
abandon of Valentino, or the sophistication of Cary Grant, the sexuality of Marlon Brando. But shy, sensitive funny men-Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers,
DIFFERENCE
Mr Sellers, our 1000-style hero, is invariably cast in roles where he is either afraid of women or impervious to them. As we read the other day when he was playing himself at p Press
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conference; he complimented that astonishing answer when his co-star, Sophia Loren, one they ask women: "What is the of the world's most beautiful quality you most admire- in a women, by comparing her with man?"
a comedian.
upon it by all our modern celeb- rites who have to be funny to be a success.
I'm sure We don': love Boothby because he's 11 fine politician It is becaVISE he scores off Michael Foot So amusingly.
S
It is not so much his scientile knowledge as his shy little smile that endears Dr Broncwski to
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And the reason Prince Philip is such a wow wherever he goes isn't because of his good looks (which would be enough Ice mast French women), or even his intelligence (which would be enough most
German women). because he has a crack for every occasion.
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else's colours, but who that someone else is remains at the moment a secret,
This is a temporary decision
She là #1-year-old" Veronique - de Montesquiou. Her only rival. to this remarkable claim are har elder sister and finally bret mother.
Her father is the Du De Montesqinipu, the head of one of France's oldest familjer, Lan
She married a young man whose name would mean es little, to you as it does to me.
de
Playwright - Henri Montherlanti "Women would be the most enchant- ing creatures" in the world gữ in falling into their arms one did not fall into their hands."
Former dress · designer Elsa Schiaparelli: "Paris is a city I associate with work. London with fun.”
Plays safe...
A review of the French Press
on the Summit collapse revetis the fcllowing differences of
opinion:
is
and does not commit Karim to entering a field of activity in The Right-wing Press is con-
vinced that Khrushchev which he is not interested.
As for bed's lure Katina prisong of the Red Army
The Left-wing Press is equally has let her
convinced that Eisenhower is from the
prisoner of the Pentagon.
know that opset provisions made for her in Aly's will, he will make her an additional allowance for the rest of her life.am
To marry
Marriage of the Month A woman of astonishing beauty widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in France, married last week in a handel in the Pyrenees.
The Press of centre parties plays it safe by saying ' that each is prisoner of his army.
Doctor H. Heimann at a UNESCO conference: Man will have no hope of survival unless he can take the salt out of sea water.”
---{London' Express Service).”
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There's a lot to be said for gravity, and I would have liked to have said it to that young man who was being questioned about whether Englishmen · are good lovers or not.
He said: "When an English girl goes to Italy and has her
"A sense of humour," they all bottom pinched she thinks she "She's a lot different from say. Discounting honesty, kindli- has had a great experience. If Harry Secombe, you must ness, sobriety, and passion, and it happened to her over here admit," he said. And we all putting the ability to make she would probably call a fall about laughing, because we money way down on the list. really do like a man who makes us laugh,
THE ANSWER
policeman."
Oh, no. she wouldn't...as long as the man who dared to took the precaution of accom- panying the gesture with a jolly
It has been bred into us by all those advice columnists who say you shouldn't marry a man unleas you con "angh together" who advise you to joke! Most Englishwomen, in fact, "laugh him out of it or who would rather have a man that ask briskly laughed at them than made love sense of humour?"
to them,
else do
the public pollsters always
Why
opinion
"Where's
Your by SHIRLEY
I know where my sense of humour is. It's lying low, a bit
get over-tired with the strain put
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