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Wild-eyed and bloody-faced from cuts and gashes, a terrified Greek chauffeur pulled up with screaming brakes last week in front of Athens' Evangelismos Hospital. Nimbly out of the bullet-riddled car stepped Eleutherios Venizelos, since 1910 eight times Premier of Greece, bitter foe of present Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Startled internes leaped forward, helped 68-year-old M. Venizelos, who was unscathed, to lift from the floor of the car the limp body of his rich wife. Blood oozed from her clothing. After a hasty examination doctors found that four bullets had grazed her lungs and stomach...
...liberalized curriculum and the four-course plan for upperclassmen. Three foreign governments decorated him for his devotion to Peace. Good, grey, well-known and well-beloved by all Princeton men, he had been living quietly in Princeton since retiring, occupied with writing and lecturing. He gave up his chauffeur last November...
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocates a six-hour day and a 30-hour week for others but not for her hard-working self. Her morning-to-midnight hours last week cost her the services of her official chauffeur. When Louis St. George, young and happily married, told her he was quitting. Madam Secretary Perkins asked: "What's the matter? Are you in poor health?'' "No indeed," replied Chauffeur St. George, "but I soon will be if I keep working 17 hours a day." His employer's failure to practice what she preached, he added...
...summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford had served five years on a Virginia chain gang. About Middleburg he had been arrested for minor thefts but always released for lack of evidence. When some liquor disappeared from the Ilsley house, Mrs. Ilsley discharged...
...Martha Hichborn Pearsall, 57, Washington socialite beauty during Theodore Roosevelt's Administration, daughter of the late Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn, divorced wife of James Gillespie Elaine Jr.; in Washington. Survived only by a nephew, who she said was well provided for, she left her entire estate to her chauffeur, one Winter B. Simpson...