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...Rome he drives a roaring Alfa-Romeo five-passenger sedan and Edda's friends go to him when they want a traffic ticket torn up. At 6:30 p.m. each day Foreign Minister Count Ciano stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Five Points | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Palace and others from His Majesty's suburban snuggery Fort Belvedere, were turned over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason. Also transferred to the King's favorite were the King's crack chauffeur, George Ladbrooke, complete with a discreet black Canadian Buick sedan and the King's personal bodyguard of many years, 200 lb. Chief Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...miles just enough to cost him second place, Nuvolari paused at the end of the track to get Cup, first prize, and an extra $3,000 in lap money. Then he jogged slowly back to the pits, put on a coat, drove away in a medium-priced U. S. sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Revival Race | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...five reels of photographs of Indian tribal ceremonies in the Hollywood Bowl, William Loane West, whose two grandfathers were full blooded Indians, became an "honorary" chief. From his platform profits he has not only earned enough to re-enter California as a junior, but also to buy a Lincoln sedan which he hopes to use for short lecture trips to help pay his tuition. His purpose in trying to make the football team is to back up his claims for the Loane West health regimen. Said he last week: "The chances are 1,000-to-1 against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Long familiar to Cape Cod residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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