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...fashionable diplomatic district. From the safety of Rumania Niko kept control of the Greek Communist Party, while Roula, as head of the women's department, beamed radio appeals to the Red underground. It was a fine life. They toured satellite Europe in a limousine driven by a party chauffeur. They vacationed in the Crimea, and Roula gave birth to a boy named Joseph (after Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Red Boss's Wife | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Confidential magazine and two of its imitators, legal troubles were piling up last week. In Los Angeles Superior Court, Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke slapped a $3,000,000 libel suit on Confidential and Publisher Robert Harrison for a scurrilous article about her and a Negro handyman and chauffeur whom the magazine said she once employed. Confidential's implication of "indecent acts" is "completely and entirely false and untrue," said her suit (the fifth libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sewer Trouble | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...Duty. In Toronto, after he had been sentenced to 15 days for driving "with ability impaired," 30 days for driving while his license was suspended and another 20 days (or $100 fine) for illegal possession of a chauffeur's license, Richard Lusk, 26, explained: "The only time I drive is when I have been drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...gains in a radio speech. It was sweetly reasonable in tone, but both his words and his voice were strong and confident. He bore down hard on an effective point: the rebels' disregard for the lives of bystanders in their attempt at assassination by aerial bombing. (Agreed a chauffeur: "If they'd had one man with guts, they'd have assassinated Perón openly.") "In the face of such infamy, disloyalty and treason," Perón said sadly, "a man of my age [59] and position needs a great sense of duty and a very solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Durable Dictator | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...Park Avenue at 73rd Street. He furnished it himself, simply but well, as befits a man who earns $20,000 a year, tax free, and gets another tax-free $35,000 for expenses. His household consists of a Swedish butler, a Swedish housekeeper, a Norwegian secretary and an American chauffeur who drives him to the U.N. building five days a week, and to his 80-acre estate in New York State on weekends. Hammarskjold is the most eligible bachelor in New York, but he keeps himself to himself. He goes bareheaded all the year round, wears ready-made blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: World On Trial | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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