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Buffett himself lives frugally. His Omaha house was bought for $31,500 in 1958; he drives a gray Lincoln Town Car without a chauffeur and does his own tax returns. He keeps a summer home at Laguna Beach, California, but shuns the water, preferring to stay inside and work. "It's a great [ocean] view," says Susan Buffett Greenberg, the eldest of Buffett's three children, "but he's never seen...
...pinnacle, Vesco used an innate talent for self-inflation and conspicuous consumption. As a struggling entrepreneur, he would call on his investors wearing, according to Herzog in his book Vesco, "a double-breasted suit, a homburg, and gloves" on a hot summer day. He would then say, "If my chauffeur calls, tell him to circle the block if he has to." The chauffeur in question was his plant manager, Ralph Dodd. Vesco liked to say he graduated from Wayne State University, although there is no record of his enrolling there. But he had such self-possession that people believed...
...students waited in full view of the press while a shuttle was brought around to the front of the funeral home to chauffeur them back to campus...
...Chauffeur Speaks...
...media reported that the two telco engineers were being brought to the Norwood barracks for telephone repairs. Is that what taxpayers are paying the salaries of two state police officers for? High tech chauffeur service, while funds for the poor are cut? Roy Bercaw Cambridge...