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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading Histories. While this bargaining over his royal personality was going on, Leopold was catching up on some reading. One day last week, his tall blond figure clad in grey jacket, flannel trousers and narrow-brimmed green felt hat, he motored in his Bugatti sport car to a big Geneva bookstore. He came away with Nehru's Glimpses of World History, Churchill's Their Finest Hour and Laski's American Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Perfect Golfer | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Bugatti with a Purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...summer of 1930 I visited O'Neill and his wife [at] a chateau outside Tours. He had a very beautiful Bugatti racing car which was kept in the peak of condition by a French mechanic. I was . . . pretty horrified by the fact that the car was lubricated with castor oil. O'Neill used to take the car put for a daily spin during which he drove it at very high speeds along the crown of the straight French roads. That was the Bugatti's only purpose. There was another car for the purpose of transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...York City ¶TIME was misinformed. However, since the strictly pour le sport Bugatti interlude, O'Neill has chosen to be chauffeur-driven.-ED Jungle Pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...young Shah who will have to cope with these stirrings was educated in Switzerland and graduated by the Teheran military academy. Like most Oriental princelings he has the reputation of liking females and a passion for driving his license-less sports Bugatti as fast as it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Two Mohammeds | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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