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LEVAR ("BEEBE") MYLER, 53, the only other member of the Mormon Mafia on Summa Corp.'s board of directors. A former Air Force mechanic and picture-frame maker, Myler signed on in 1950 as a chauffeur for Actress Jean Peters, Hughes' second wife. Overweight, short-tempered and ailing (gout, heart trouble), he was standoffish and kept mostly to himself...
...RICKARD, 57, a former lumberjack and World War II fighter pilot who sold insurance before joining Hughes as an $80-a-week driver two decades ago. His first job was to chauffeur the flock of Hughes' starlets. He went into the movie business himself with a drive-in theater in Idaho but returned to the Hughes fold after it failed. Rickard is a convert to Mormonism...
...were more like teen-agers than a woman in her thirties and a man in his fifties," recalls Kay Summersby Morgan in a forthcoming book. Past Forgetting-My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Summersby, who served as Ike's chauffeur, confidante and companion during much of World War II, wrote the book shortly before she died last year of cancer. An excerpt from her memoir, which appears in the December Ladies ' Home Journal, tells about off-duty hours spent together, mutual professions of love and, despite Ike's marriage to Mamie, plans for children. "We would...
...assemble these thousand-plus pages of bestseller, John Toland interviewed a host of adjutants and field marshals, secretaries and doctors, even the Führer's faithful chauffeur and pilot. Perhaps partly for that reason, the book is lumpy with anecdote and short on understanding...
...years have so many diplomatic persona suddenly been declared non grata. In Oslo, members of North Korea's diplomatic mission-three bureaucrats and a chauffeur-were given six days to pack up and get out. Foreign Ministry officials frostily informed North Korea's Ambassador to Stockholm, Kil Jae Gyong, who is also accredited to Oslo, that he was no longer welcome in Norway. Similar scenes took place in Helsinki and Copenhagen, and as of last week, twelve North Korean embassy staffers had been unceremoniously ordered home to Pyongyang...