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Twenty minutes later the party encountered the revolutionary Colonel Diógenes Gil in a car with a civilian chauffeur. Colonel Gil straightway sought the President's ear. The situation, he said, was serious. To avoid bloodshed, he suggested, the President should make him Minister of War. The President was outraged...
Wedged between two gottverdammte Englander in the back seat, General Kreipe sat in military silence as the car rushed 30 miles across Crete, from the north to the south shore: The car stopped; the General and his chauffeur were hustled aboard a waiting British ship...
...Maciste was the first woman in Guatemala to go into politics. When Ubico was candidate for the Presidency in 1926, she started as his chauffeur, branched out into campaign-managing. Little boys followed her in the street, mocked her great height. She stood it for a while, then began scolding and spanking. So famous became her spankings that Guatemalan mothers still scare their children by threatening to call La Maciste...
...Saltonstall's style as governor is in keeping with the weathered plainness of his Yankee squire's face. He dispensed with the limousine and motorcycle escort his predecessors affected. Saltonstall is driven around in a two-door 1941 Chevrolet. The Governor rides up front, and Chauffeur Al Larrivee-not uniformed-is careful to keep a cache of chocolates and nuts for his boss in the glove compartment...
...managed to be both a voice and a glamor girl. She is perhaps the only opera singer in the U.S. who receives emerald necklaces as casual presents from admirers, and certainly the only one who has gone on tour in a Hispano-Suiza complete with French maid and chauffeur...