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...nearly as much trouble as Pierre. Born in Brittany - France's economic and cultural equivalent of the Deep South - Raymond longed for money, social position, fast cars and dames. On his discharge as a French army commando, he adopted the aristocratic-sounding name of Raymond de Beaufort. Calling on his mother, a factory worker in a Paris suburb, Raymond turned up in new U.S. cars (rented), airily told his childhood pals he was going to build a factory and give them all jobs. "No matter how high I rise, I shall never forget you," Raymond would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: L'Affaire Peugeot | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...killed during the storm in an automobile upset near Beaufort...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Hurricane Gracie Hits S.C. Coast Causing Heavy Damage, 1 Death; Russians Boycott U.N. Session | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore down through the overcast to the rain-browned runways of the Marine Auxiliary Air Station at Beaufort, S.C., only minutes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Last week, at the Beaufort (pronounced Bewfirt) Naval Hospital, where he is recovering from frostbite and shock, Pilot Rankin forecast, "I'll be back in the air in a month." But the Marine Corps had other ideas. The medics were not likely to certify him for duty that early, although his injuries seemed to be remarkably minor. Even if they did, Pilot Rankin's next duty, according to orders on the docket, will be a nine-month general-staff course at Quantico, where good officers get better and a pilot can still get enough flight time to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Samuel Hopkins Adams, 87, novelist, turn-of-the-century muckraker, chronicler of the Harding era (Revelry, Incredible Era), master of reminiscence (Grandfather Stories), whose widely varied five-foot shelf also made a large haul in Hollywood (Flaming Youth, It Happened One Night, The Gorgeous Hussy, The Harvey Girls); in Beaufort, S.C. "I'm damned if I want my last novel to appear posthumously," he said, but Tenderloin will not appear until January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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