Word: chauffeur
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...festive homecoming dinner in his fortress-like brick house in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. His guests were the handful of people he could trust: one of his daughters and her husband; Charles ("Chuckie") English, his partner in myriad syndicate enterprises over the years; and his loyal courier-chauffeur, Dominick ("Butch") Blazi. No matter that lawmen had shadowed Giancana's every move since he landed at O'Hare Airport and were keeping watch on the house. He was used to that...
...widow, Jacqueline, to the artist's priceless collection of paintings, "Paulo" was unsuccessful in denying the claims of his father's three illegitimate children to a share in the estate. Young Picasso lived wanly in the massive shadow of his father, helping out occasionally as handyman and chauffeur. His own son, Pablito, died in agony three months after drinking bleaching fluid because he was barred from his grandfather's villa when the artist died...
...officers couldn't understand what was happening. The German captain promised to come back in a few months, as a tourist--even though it was clear how the war would end. German planes were still bombing Resistance-held villages--and he cried when he said goodbye, expecting his French chauffeur to sympathize with him. Stein was deliriously happy--proud of the American liberators and amused by the retreating Germans. "They are a funny people, they certainly are," she said...
...press conference following his release, Lorenz said that the terrorists -after overpowering him and his chauffeur while he was driving to C.D.U. headquarters-immediately sedated him with drug injections. He was kept under heavy guard in what Lorenz described as a "cell" -a 7-ft. by 10-ft. room, containing only a bed, a chair and a table-located in a Berlin cellar. Said he: "I have no idea where it was." Lorenz insisted that he had not been tortured and that considering the circumstances, his treatment by the abductors was "correct...
Jean Cocteau led such a fiamboyant life that it tended to overshadow his work. In love with a young motorcyclist at one time he used to follow him around in his chauffeur-driver limousine and vomit each time the led made a dangerous turn, to the delights of meansprited Parisians Orpheus is probably the most theatrically successful of this unsavory man's unusual ouevre. At the Ex, tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday (as well as next weekend...