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...sent him the President's customary $4,000 monthly check for "special expenses," hf turned it back and said he would get along on his salary as he always had. He refused to accept five 1953 cars presented by Mexico City auto dealers. When a policeman stopped his chauffeur from making an illegal U turn, the President had the cop publicly commended...
...17th century, was too much for the Aga Khan, who had come to Aix-les-Bains for a peaceful fortnight. He left town in a huff (actually, in a green Rolls Royce with red leather upholstery) and headed for the 20th century in Lausanne. Switzerland, followed by his chauffeur, maid and luggage in a second car. "The Aga Khan," it was explained, "receives and sends many letters and needs to make frequent phone calls abroad...
...exhibits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago's Art Institute and Washington's National Gallery, where some 170 Dale paintings now fill nine rooms, hang in twelve others. Always a believer in noblesse oblige, Patroness Dale once discarded her town car because its roof left the chauffeur exposed, designed a $20,000 Belgian-made Minerva cabriolet with a sliding metal top that could be pulled over the driver's seat at the first sign of rain...
...bets were quickly forgotten when the driver of a car stopped, asked directions to a hotel in Mexico City and invited Delgado to show the way. He got in, directed the driver by a roundabout route while asking for a job as chauffeur during the visitors' stay. The visitors were a MARCH OF TIME crew. Delgado got a temporary job with them, proved himself so invaluable that he has been with TIME Inc. ever since...
...Philadelphia two years ago while he was a music student at Curtis Institute."Her millions don't impress me," he told reporters. Papa and Mama di Bonaventura, who had already entertained the Whitneys at a lasagna dinner in their East 17th Street flat, reported back from a chauffeur-driven visit to the 900-acre Whitney estate in Manhasset, Long Island: "We just had a good time talking and looking around. All very nice people." Mamie Eisenhower, during Spring Week festivities at Brother-in-Law Milton Eisenhower's Pennsylvania State College, obligingly crowned Madeline Sharp of Herndon, Va. "Miss...