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...Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: "Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!" At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swill | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...where he was because, after an excellent record as testpilot for the Lockheed factory, he got a job as aerial chauffeur for Frank C. Hall, onetime drug clerk who struck a fortune in Oklahoma oil. In this same plane, named for the oilman's daughter Mrs. Winnie Mae Fain, Post won the Los Angeles-Chicago air derby last year. Then Hall financed him for the attempt to break the round-world record of the Graf Zeppelin-21 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Two Men in a Hurry | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Plump, chatty, irresponsible, Troubadour Downey is still addicted to expensive cars, large apartments and other luxuries precious to those who have learned? they may not keep them long, but he banks three quarters of his income, no longer has a chauffeur. He is proud that his appeal is not, like that of Rudy Vallee and other famed radio entertainers, based on vocal sexuality. It rests, rather, upon the fact that his high, clear voice broadcasts much more smoothly, more truly than voices which, louder and more pretentious, would easily be recognized as superior to his on a concert stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harvest Moon | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Marie was a Parisian maid-of-all-work but a country girl at heart. She worked for the Deloses, an avaricious jeweler and his discontented wife, was in love with Babylas, a mulatto chauffeur. Babylas' motives were neither pure nor unmixed: he took Marie for lack of something better, and hoped through her to get at her master's jewels. When Babylas told Marie his scheme she was horrified, carried her fear so openly on her face that M. Delos took it for an invitation and complacently accepted it. Marie, servant and a yes-girl, wrung her hands and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cavalry, C. S. A.* | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...late Cinemactress Mabel Normand, whose career suffered when her name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious murder of Director William Desmond Taylor, and later when her chauffeur shot Courtland Dines, wealthy stockbroker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bow Out | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

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