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...Simpson arrived in a black Canadian Buick sedan which entered Ipswich with such rapidity as to have left behind down the road a cameraman's car doing 65 m.p.h. Her chauffeur was the King's own, and Ipswich police, manifesting no desire to write him a ticket for speeding, scrambled to throw open the courthouse gates for the Buick to dash in. With their truncheons they smashed two press cameras. Previously all newsreel crews had been sent completely out of Ipswich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stag at Bay | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...varied. A quantity of royal pots & pans, some from Buckingham Palace and others from His Majesty's suburban snuggery Fort Belvedere, were turned over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason. Also transferred to the King's favorite were the King's crack chauffeur, George Ladbrooke, complete with a discreet black Canadian Buick sedan and the King's personal bodyguard of many years, 200 lb. Chief Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Paris, popped into Lloyds Bank for money and on visiting her new house to inspect the decoration, indulged in some hocus-pocus with the hall lights, said to have been devised by Bodyguardsman David Storier. When the hall light gave two short winks and one long, that meant that Chauffeur Ladbrooke was to start up the royal Buick and with engine buzzing open the door for Mrs. Simpson to dash from house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Instead of her previous nine ladies-in-waiting, Her Majesty will have five at Marlborough House. She takes with her Amelo, the French onetime No. 2 chef at Buckingham Palace; her principal chauffeur; and of course faithful Sir Harry Lloyd Verney, Treasurer and Private Secretary to the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...reads the way suggested by The President's Mystery Story for a man to disappear and take his vast fortune with him. Blake's execution of this incredibly far-fetched escape is on the way to success when his wife is suddenly killed by Capitalist Sartos' chauffeur. The crime is laid to the vanished Blake. When the corpse he has planted behind as his own is found, he is called a suicide, seems free from pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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