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...large car with a negro chauffeur sped a man and woman from California into Arizona. When it failed to stop at the border inspection station near Toprock, an irate motorcycle policeman chased it a mile down the road, waved it to the side of the road. He looked at the two passengers. A sheepish grin came over his face. He waved them on. At Holbrook, Ariz., stopping for the night, they registered as Robert Brown and Mary Jones, took rooms 12 & 17. Next morning as they paid their bill, Hotel Proprietor Joe Gerwitz looked at the woman in dark glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Watching augustly were the members of the floor committee: Mrs. Field's butler, buck-toothed Hider, chairman and Big Man of the evening; her Chauffeur Haslam; Leonard K. Elmhirst's Butler Grove; Dr. Milton A. Bridge's May, who was once with Reginald Vanderbilt; Banker Winthrop W. Aldrich's handsome affable Wetherall, Charles Morgan's Butler White, Ogden Phipps' big red-faced Parr, who used to work for Lady Astor, a great distinction because Lady Astor entertains a great deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Butlers | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Oxenham, who lost his sight in the War, learned to play golf two years ago when a doctor friend thrust a club into his hands, told him what to do. He made that first hole in bogey. Now he plays twice a week, takes his chauffeur as caddie. He explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...chauffeur tees up for me, tells me where the ball lies, the direction to the hole and hands me the club. I know by the club he hands me how far away the hole is and make the stroke accordingly. When it comes to putting, the chauffeur tells me the distance and sometimes my opponent helps by rattling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior fittings silver and ivory. Reporter De Long subsequently learned more facts about the limousine. It was a bullet-proof Maybach-Zeppelin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From Sedalia | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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