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...chauffeur spent hours signing autograph books while waiting for the General. Most surprised person during the tour was a coal heaver in a railway yard who suddenly saw Monty before him, got a hearty handshake and a blunt compliment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Monty on Tour | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...agent of the Secret Field Police, was bored, contemptuous. Lieut. Hans Ritz, 24, was a small man with a caved-in chest, a gnome-like bald head and an infantile expression. The fourth defendant, Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov, was a Russian who had hired himself out as a chauffeur of a Nazi death van; beneath close-drawn eyebrows his eyes peered sharply at the court as the tribunal secretary read the four men's confessions. Their crimes ranged from rubber truncheon beatings to participation in mass executions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pattern for Hanging | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

When Chief Justice Sir Oscar Daly finished his summation and the jury retired, Freddy had his chauffeur park his car beside the courthouse. But he managed to look solemn when the twelve brought in their verdict, vastly relieved when the words "not guilty" unlocked the mahogany cage for the last time. In a sea of shrieks and yells and jumping natives, Freddy kissed his wife, Sir Harry's 19-year-old daughter Nancy, and his friend, the Marquis de Visdelou-Guimbeau, whose coat of arms is three wolves with their tongues hanging out. Then he dove into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Killer at Large | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

John Jacob Astor, assisted by his chauffeur, whisked a piglet to a swank Manhattan pet hospital from the Astor farm in Basking Ridge, N.J. Hospital authorities soon told the press that the patient, Silvia by name, was improving. Her trouble: undernourishment (probably as a member of too large a litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...when the deadline came last week, Dr. Pezet received a phone call from his chauffeur. The plot had leaked. Police came to take him away. Said he calmly: his revolt was not against the constituted authority, since that authority was himself. Pudgy, earnest José Pezet declared that not a drop of blood would have been spilled. He had even provided a nurse to accompany the conspirators to the Presidential Palace, lest Señora de la Guardia faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pezet's Plot | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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