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...Thorez: "Very well, you see." He was helped into a black Delahaye limousine and stretched out on the back seat, his back propped up on pillows. The Delahaye sped off. He could not be found in his house at Choisy-le-Roi, but the car turned up. Said the chauffeur: "He is very tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pilot Aboard | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...made a practice of renting a whole floor at New York's Doctors Hospital to keep other germ carriers at a distance. She bought dozens of pairs of white gloves, wore them constantly, saw to it that each was dipped in antiseptic after being worn. Her chauffeur had to wear a clean uniform every day. When friends sent her flowers, one of her servants would hold the box under water, open it enough to remove and inspect the card, and then quickly throw box, flowers and card away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Golden Windfall | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

From then on things go from bad to worse for the beautiful killer. Although she manages to elude the law, retribution catches up with her. When the family chauffeur (Robert Mitchum) spurns her love because he does not approve of the way she goes around demolishing people and automobiles, she decides to kill herself. With Mitchum in the car, she throws the gear into reverse and goes catapulting back over the cliff where her parents died. At this point Angel Face comes to an end, having just about run out of both actors and automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...organization, and got the state to set up a similar body. The two groups started helping communities help themselves, conducted "foreign" capitalists on tours of the state to show its progress. Nondrinking, nonsmoking Ham Moses became a modern-day Arkansas traveler, ran some of the tours himself in his chauffeur-driven Chrysler, which has a built-in ice box always stocked with Coca-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Arkansas Traveler, 1953 | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...from scampering back to Europe. "To give you a small idea of the wealth that surrounds this girl," said the D.A., "she has a small fortune in jewelry in Zurich, cash in Paris, and an Alfa Romeo car worth $8,000 in Rome. Why, she paid her Italian chauffeur $600 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Golden Girl | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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