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Another memento came from Charles E. Wilson, when he was president of General Electric. Liz had left New York in dry weather for a tour of Schenectady plants, where she found ankle-deep slush. While sloshing around in open-toed shoes, she noticed Mr. Wilson whispering to his chauffeur, who returned a short time later with a shoe box which Wilson gravely presented to Liz. It contained a pair of rubbers. After that, whenever she phoned him, Mr. Wilson's sign-off to TIME Researcher Fremd was "Keep your feet...
...verb has been added to the American language by G.I.s in Europe. The verb is 'schine,' as in "You're schined from guard duty, soldier, and your chauffeur's waiting...
...poop of the barge holding a branch of forsythia, smiling and doffing his tan Stetson. When the party climbed out onto the Georgetown cobblestones at the end of the trip, he seemed as fresh and springy of step as ever. But as he got into his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile to go home, certain marks of wilderness attrition were unmistakably evident: somehow, somewhere, Justice Douglas had got his chin into some poison...
...accident. He is a particularly prudent driver, says Bureau Chief Frank White, while traveling in Berlin's Red-occupied East sector, where Germans who are caught violating traffic laws have a way of disappearing. For the heavy-traveling Bonn bureau there are three drivers: Wilhelm Hauner, former chauffeur of a Tiger tank in a German Panzer divi sion ; Heinz Koperski, who served in an 88mm. artillery battery; and Bruno Teschke, who serviced Messerschmitts in Czechoslovakia. All have one thing in common: in World War II each was captured by the Russians and held as a prisoner...
...Secretary of the Army's office to the commanding general at Fort Dix that Private Dave Schine was to get night and weekend passes during his eight weeks of basic training. The word was passed down the line that Schine was a VIP, and every weekend a chauffeur-driven Cadillac would whisk him away from his comrades-in-arms (who get a weekend pass about four times in the eight weeks). Only once did Schine pull K.P. duty. One afternoon his squad leader hastily called a group of G.I.'s to clean stoves. After the detail was formed...