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...gardens to Country Club Plaza, the neo-Spanish shopping center of J. C. Nichols' famed suburban development (TIME, Dec. 1). Just beyond, they turned west along Brush Creek, lined and bottomed with the concrete Tom Pendergast sold. Just across the Kansas line, the car turned up a short driveway to a large stone-and-brick house,† a full eight-iron shot from the tenth green of the Mission Hills golf course. As he opened the front door, Roberts whistled shrilly and yelled to his wife: "Hey, Madam, I'm home...
...good-natured Alrick Man (non-playing captain of this year's Davis Cup team); as soon as he cooled off, Ted was on the long-distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced the driver to a halt, and told him: "Look, brother, I got a wife and a kid and a dog . . . don't drive 60 miles an hour past...
...strict enough. He was kindly to his boys, but rarely familiar; at his most informal, he would give them friendly pokes in the ribs with his walking stick. Few "Mr. Chips" stories were told about him. More often the boys talked about his bad driving (he permanently scarred a driveway maple tree at St. George's) or his absentmindedness...
...black Packard limousine hummed up the long gravel driveway and crunched to a stop near the big grey house with the white-pillared portico. The President, having arrived a few minutes late, hurriedly got out. "We thought we'd lost you," said Anna Eleanor Roosevelt as she extended her hand...
...afternoon of the third day, the elevator brought Mohandas K. Gandhi. He had come to New Delhi by special train, rode in a Packard over a driveway made especially for him to a colony of bhangis (sweepers), who belonged to the underprivileged but politically potent caste of Untouchables. When the living idol of some 200 million Indians emerged from his meeting with the British ministers, he smiled a Gandhi smile...