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Beckwith told questioners that he got a job as chauffeur and valet for Bernstein through "mutual friends" after deserting the Marine Corps in September, had lammed off with the Lincoln for a three weeks' toot. Said absent-minded Maestro Bernstein, who apparently forgot to report the theft: "All I know is that he let me out at a recital on Nov. 24 and never did pick me up again...
While crowds outside Amsterdam's Royal Palace cheered "Long live Wilhelmina," the Old Queen slipped out the back door and ordered her chauffeur to drive to The Hague. Halfway there, she turned to her ever present security guards and said, imperious as ever: "Gentlemen, I am a princess now, I am not a queen. So thank you for your services. Will you leave the car, please?" The two baffled guards hitchhiked the rest...
Ironically, it did not snare Augstein-although his home was combed and all suspect material, including an unpublished theme that Augstein had written as a student, was impounded. When Augstein learned of the raids, he delivered himself into police custody, with impressive insouciance: his liveried chauffeur, toting a well-stocked overnight bag, followed him through the station door...
...Chauffeur at Groton. Until recently, pace was not the pride of many famed New England boys' boarding schools, which for years had the pretense but not the product of Eton and Harrow. Now they have changed dramatically. By snubbing Social Register dullards and by combing the country for bright recruits of all races, religions and incomes, they are fast becoming more democratic than homogeneous suburban public schools. "The idea that private schools are for snobs is absolute nonsense," says Owen B. Kiernan, Massachusetts' commissioner of education. A few Junes ago, one proper Bostonian summed up: "Today my daughter...
Sponsor's Role. A rinsed blonde from Sioux City. Iowa. Marianne first caught Kennedy's eye in 1957. while he was still the junior Senator from Massachusetts. A new copy editor on the Lincoln, Neb.. Journal, she got the chance to chauffeur Kennedy, who had flown in to make a speech, back to the airport. Listening to her journalistic dreams (she studied journalism at the University of Nebraska, where she made Phi Beta Kappa), the Senator idly promised to abet them if she ever came to Washington. Marianne promptly went there, and a surprised Kennedy wangled...