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...price range between the Special and the Super (without such equipment as radio & heater). It is built on the Special's wheelbase (122 in.), but under the hood it has the same 200-h.p. engine as the Roadmaster. It will be available as a station wagon, two-door Riviera and four-door sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Buick's Bid | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Thorez, continues to draw salary and secretarial allowance "even though he has not set foot in the Assembly for years. Surely the Communist Party doesn't need the money. Mr. Thorez rides around in a car modeled on that of the King of Yemen. He lives on the Riviera in a magnificent villa surrounded by swarms of bodyguards. For my part, I suggest that two Deputies living in concubinage should receive only one allowance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Love and the Budget | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

After eight years of putting up with aging (72) Painter Pablo Picasso, his peace doves and his two-faced doodlings, Fellow Artist Françoise Gillot abandoned the master at his studio on the Riviera, bundled herself and their two children, Claude, 6, and Paloma, 4, back to Paris. Said she: "I was tired of living with a historical monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Peeking over the wall of a villa near Cannes, the curious saw a squat, slow-footed man trying to absorb the Riviera sunshine through a heavy, fur-collared coat and baggy cap. The man, who proclaimed himself an architect from Paris, wallowed in luxury amidst the pines. He had five cars and a swimming pool at his disposal, was guarded night & day by a patrol of gun-toting guards and police dogs. The architect: Maurice Thorez, ailing boss of France's Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...evening while out with Alfred Nobel, the dynamite manufacturer, and his American mistress. After blithely spending her dowry of 300,000 francs (then $60,000) on a trousseau, Misia settled in Paris, and while Thadee concerned himself with business, she diverted herself by building homes on the Riviera, helping imprisoned anarchists and bewitching the first of a long succession of assorted geniuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Borderland of Bohemia | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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