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...first political kidnaping in West German history was carried out with almost military precision. Lorenz's black Mercedes was cut off by a truck and rammed in the rear by a red Fiat. When Lorenz's chauffeur got out to discuss the accident with the Fiat's woman driver, he was knocked to the street by a bearded man from still another car. The men then jumped into the Mercedes and drove the protesting Lorenz away...
...areas") at his glittering New Year's Eve party. Hordes of men in tuxedos and women in long gowns spill out of the ballroom, down the marble steps of the collonnaded Presidential Palace, stampeding to the relative safety of the American Embassy compound. (Michael, of course, has his own chauffeur waiting to take him to his private plane). It only lasts for a moment, but the violence of the first confused stages of this revolution provide a glimpse of a different kind of violence than pervades the rest of the film--a violence of freedom instead of mutual destruction...
...which every word, every shot is necessary, not to mention each scene and each character. Holly Martins, writer of westerns and most idealist of the idealist Americans, arrives in Vienna to work for his old friend Harry Lime--who turns out to be dead, run over by his own chauffeur, Calloway, the British military policeman, knows Lime has been mixed up in a vicious black market in penicillin, and Martins undertakes the job of clearing his friend's name and finding his real murderer. Since most mysteries are set in a modern city like Los Angeles or in remote, isolated...
Died. Kay Summersby Morgan, 66, General Dwight Eisenhower's secretary, chauffeur and confidante during World War II; of cancer; in Southampton, N.Y. Irish-born daughter of a retired British officer, Summersby, a former actress and model, was assigned to drive Eisenhower during an inspection tour of London in May 1942. Her constant association with the general throughout the war stirred rumors that she was his mistress. The speculation gained credence from Harry Truman's statement in Plain Speaking; he had seen a letter from Ike to General George Marshall saying he planned to divorce Mamie to marry Summersby...
Grateful Servants. In the Atlanta area, the rich are dispensing with full-time yardmen and entrusting the manicuring of lawns to commercial garden-maintenance firms; several families have put then" chauffeurs behind the lawnmower in nondriving hours. These days many servants are grateful to have any job. A wealthy Los Angeles contractor leaves his Rolls in the garage and the chauffeur in the garden when he visits a potential customer; instead, he drives his wife's beat-up Volkswagen to convey an impression of cost-consciousness...