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Deep in thought Dr. de Gasperi absently murmured encouragement to his frightened chauffeur. At Montecitorio Palace Dr. de Gasperi, no paler than usual, said nothing of the attempt on his life. Reporters were told that he "resumed his thinking" a moment or so after the shot was fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Trial Run | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...train, and begins a half-farcical, half-melodramatic hunt for the killer. She is variously helped and hin dered by assorted menaces, red herrings and foozlebrains - like Ralph Bellamy and Dan Duryea (as two brothers who loathe each other), George Coulouris (a devilish butler), Allen Jenkins (a sinister chauffeur), David Bruce (a mystery author), and Edward Everett Horton (Edward Everett Horton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...hrer's chauffeur, slim, blue-eyed Erich Kempka, told U.S. interrogators that he had helped burn the bodies of Hitler and his newlywed mistress, Eva Braun. Kempka's story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Where There's Smoke . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...that this is all to the good, that politics here is kept on a high plane of dignity and decorum. . . . On the contrary, politics, in our cold, undiluted form, bore us so much that . . . often politicians can hardly get a meeting together. . . . One prominent candidate found himself addressing his chauffeur and the janitor of a public hall and no one else the other night. . . . Today the Canadian political audience looks like ... a cargo of dead haddock. The statesman gazing into these cold, unblinking eyes ... is frightened to say anything he would not repeat in church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: Something About the Climate? | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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