Word: chauffeur
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...fake African chant from a Tarzan picture. Even in 1950 reruns, Negroes are chuckleheaded or criminal. In mystery pictures, it is a Negro who discovers the corpse and scampers away shouting "Feets do yo' stuff!" Says the comic: "I don't want any dark innuendoes." Chirps the chauffeur: "Anybody call me?" Even such all-black musicals as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky patronized as they provided employment. "It's been a long journey to this moment," said Sidney Poitier when he received his Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963. But his was only...
...Mother Anne Ford Uzielli, 25, and Aunt Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 27. Tiny Alex roundly ignored eager photographers, but perked up later at Grandma's house: Mme. Sybil Billotte's 14-room estate in suburban Senlis. The tyke and his doting entourage (including nanny, two bodyguards and chauffeur) then motored to Brussels, where he and Auntie Charlotte hopped a plane to New York, the last leg of his jet-set journey...
...Opera is a post of sacred national trust. Its incumbent inherits Vienna's 300-year operatic tradition, directing one of the longest and best-quality seasons in the world. In return, he may receive up to $30,000 a year, plus a liberal expense account, an apartment, a chauffeur-driven car and the run of Vienna's famed Sacher Hotel-free room, meals and entertaining. With the job vacant since the death four months ago of Director Egon Hilbert, it might be thought that opera administrators and conductors the world over would be clamoring...
...Stick of Dynamite." To Soul Singer Ben Branch, who was to perform at a Claiborne Temple rally later that evening, King made a special request: "I want you to sing that song Precious Lord *for me-sing it real pretty." When Chauffeur Solomon Jones naggingly advised King to don his topcoat against the evening's chill, the muscular Atlantan grinned and allowed: "O.K., I will...
...Cooke, who has both a warm Irish wit and an M.A. in social work, is regarded in church circles as a prelate whose style and approach will not differ strikingly from those of his predecessor. Reared in The Bronx, the son of Irish immigrants (his father was a chauffeur and construction worker), Cooke was ordained to the priesthood in 1945. In 1957, Spellman chose him to be his secretary. In 1965, after several rapid promotions, he became vicar general of the archdiocese, acting as Spellman's administrative deputy. He drew attention for being almost as good a fund raiser...