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...back through Abilene, in front of St. Andrew's Church, Ike suddenly ordered his chauffeur to stop the car when a woman broke through the crowd and dashed into the street. The President greeted her with a warm kiss on the cheek and announced that she was Mrs. Gladys Brooks, his high-school sweetheart. On the way back to Salina, Ike halted the motorcade once more at a drive-in melon market. He enthusiastically accepted a dripping slice of cantaloupe from the flabbergasted proprietors, bought two watermelons to take along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hello, Everybody! | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...perks" (short for perquisites). FOA staffers will no longer get free bus service to the PX stores, and if they make less than $6,000 a year, must cross the Atlantic in cabin, not first class, with the Government paying the bill. Free French lessons are out; so are chauffeur-driven limousines for all but the six top executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Rifted, Bumped & Slotted | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...musius (as Venezuelans call foreigners, from monsieur), is one of the sights of South America. To staff such places and sustain the pace of entertainment, some of the hard-trading, hard-drinking men who keep the dance of the Bs going hire two or three housemaids, a cook, a chauffeur, a butler and a gardener. (Average cook's wage: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Busy Bs | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...motorcade of chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and Chryslers, the party swirled into West Philadelphia, where, at one of Father Divine's centers, the Divine Tracy Hotel, he had decreed a light breakfast. Prophet Jones stared at the array of fruits and fruit juices, eggs cooked in every style, ham, sausages, bacon and pastries. He eats only one meal a day, and that after 9:30 p.m., he explained, and nibbled sparingly on a peach and a pear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cosmic Lubritorium | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Calculated Delay. In Oneida, N.Y., state police watched Truck Driver Francis Gorman deliver four new patrol cars to their barracks, then nabbed him for driving without a chauffeur's license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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