Word: chauffeur
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...spring of 1934 I was fortunate to be chosen by Christina Hopkinson Baker, one-time presidential dean of Radcliffe, to be chauffeur-companion for her husband. George Pierce Baker, creator of Harvard's legendary 47 Workshop where O'Neill, Behrman, Woffe. Barry and other dramatists students, and founder of the Yale Department of the Drama Mr. Baker (he loathed being called "doctor") had had a mild stroke and needed someone to putter in the garden with him and take him on occasional drives through the mountains from his country home in Silver Lake New Hampshire...
While the car idled in the street, the chauffeur operated a remote-control device, opening the metal gates that sealed off the driveway. Suddenly, three men sprang from a blue Fiat 128 parked across the street, spraying the Alfa Romeo sedan with bullets. The driver yelled at his passenger to get down; the armored car's heavy metal plating and triple-thick bulletproof glass held true...
...visit, and I get bombs thrown at me," he declared. "It is outrageous." But the police assured him that they had everything under control. The only added security precaution was to change the return route of the imperial procession. But the bungling police forgot to tell the chauffeur of the lead car about the change, so he made a wrong turn at the bridge into a narrow alley, then had to stop and back out. That maneuver forced the archduke's car to a halt, right where Princip happened to be standing. "I got hold of my handgun...
Kiessling. a bachelor, had stirred mild comment when, shortly after arriving at NATO, he indicated his intention to share a house with his male chauffeur. Nevertheless, the general has stoutly maintained that he is innocent of impropriety. "Never in my life have I had homosexual contacts of any kind." he said. In the wake of last week's charges, suspicion began to arise that the West German defense ministry may indeed have the wrong man. Both a Cologne newspaper and a radio station reported that patrons of two gay bars Kiessling was supposed to have frequented had never seen...
...into something a little more spectacular." But no one has managed to turn excess into success like Liberace, 64, who still reigns as the glitter king of the big-bucks show-biz circuit. To be sure, he still faces the unresolved "palimony" suit filed against him by his former chauffeur-bodyguard Scott Thorson, 24. But nothing is dampening the celebration of his 40th year in show business. For the first time he is taking his Las Vegas show-sets and kaboodle-on the road in April to New York's Radio City Music Hall, where he will be joined...