Word: chauffeur
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...watched a screening of The Godfather beside the swimming pool. Some stayed on to play backgammon, sip their drinks and kibbitz. In another part of the pad, the action suddenly erupted into violence. Four intruders slipped through a gate in Hefner's electrified fence, bumped into a chauffeur and were challenged. Drawing knives, they attacked the chauffeur. When a guard saw the assault on a closed-circuit TV screen and rushed to help, he too was stabbed. Other employees joined the melee. Result: four intruders and their driver caught, both guard and chauffeur hospitalized...
...otherwise the plot revealed in court last week was a familiar one to readers of D.H. Lawrence. On trial in the Old Bailey was a handsome Irishman named Maurice O'Regan, 33, charged with forging three checks to a total of $34,400. Maurice had been butler, chauffeur, valet, handyman and cook to Sir Francis Henry Grenville Peek, 56, fourth baronet of Rousdon. But with raven-haired, Jamaica-born Lady Caroline Peek, 37, the testimony revealed, Maurice's services had gone considerably further...
...small (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.), feisty man who once managed boxers, Eboli apparently was lured to a post-midnight meeting far from his Fort Lee, N.J., home by other mobsters on a pretext of discussing some urgent gang business. His burly chauffeur, Joseph Sternfeld, told police that Eboli was approaching his waiting car after the meeting when a truck sped past, shots erupted from it, and Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli...
...Carlo Ponti Jr. (alias Cipì) already speaks a combination of Italian, English and German, but he doesn't have too many friends. So his mother Sophia Loren hired a pair of swimming instructors and invited the gardener's children, the chauffeur's children and various neighbors for some lessons in the pool at the Ponti villa outside Rome. Cipì didn't much like the water -it got in his eyes and ears -and at one point he called out to his mother, "Ich liebe dich, but can I come raus?" The result...
...Years ago, when Sydney Gruson was running the now defunct New York Times international edition from Paris, his wife, Flora Lewis, sometimes used the telephone, office facilities and chauffeur-driven car of the paper's Paris bureau. In the absence of the bureau chief, she would sometimes occupy his private office-a practice that ended when one of the correspondents installed a special lock. The arrangement was curious because Lewis, a skilled journalist of wide experience, was then writing a column for Newsday. The couple then returned to New York, where he became a Times vice president...