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...Excellency asked for no publicity and delivered a reasonable, realistic address on the shrinking world, the limits of the United Nations and the new interests of India in the world. He arrived sitting beside his chauffeur, greeted his audience without rush, spoke with very humble humour and stayed an hour for questions over coffee (which he drank...
...house in Bloomfield Hills, a Detroit suburb. Because of the many irons he has in the fire, Romney has little time to spend with his attractive family (the Romneys have four children, five grandchildren). To catch up on sleep, he often catnaps in the fold-back bed of his chauffeur-driven Rambler as he spins around Michigan on a round of speeches and meetings...
...prestigious new job, Speaker McCormack is paid $35,000 a year, plus $10,000 for expenses (an ordinary Representative gets $22,500). He also inherits two elaborate suites of offices and a cozy nook, a Cadillac with chauffeur, a private dining room. The power and the trappings of the Speaker are a big step up for any man-and a long way from the drab South Boston streets where John McCormack got his start...
...quartier out for a spin; runs out of gas. Next day he drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house and hollers yoo-hoo. After 20 hours in the trunk, the hero escapes, recaptures the car, on the way home stops for gas. But it isn't just...
...Merrick, whose ego matches his. was Homeric. "What's the highest straight salary ever paid to a Broad way actor?" asked Gleason. Merrick said he thought it was $5,000 a week. Gleason demanded and got $5,050. He also insisted on an extra dressing room and a chauffeur-driven car. Once rehearsals be gan. Merrick grumbles, "he'd say if he couldn't have his way on this or that, 'I'll get sick.' " Temperamentally unsuited to the night-in-night-out routine of Broadway. Gleason was bored with the show when...