Word: valets
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...young Norman McGowan's finest hour when he was called upon in 1949 to be Churchill's valet and provide some of these necessary things. Recollecting his three years of service with the grand old man, McGowan has written an ingratiating book, seemingly almost by inadvertence. It is the English story on the classic theme of master and man that has been exploited by everyone from Shakespeare to Wodehouse. But no Jeeves is McGowan, no Wooster Churchill...
...rival in Latin America is Rio. Last week the two high-living cities got set for a comparison by an expert: Cuban Industrialist Burke Hedges, 46. In his own Lockheed Lodestar, Hedges circled Rio's Santos Dumont airport one sunny afternoon, set down, stepped out with his secretary, valet, fulltime flight crew. Reason for the move: Hedges is Cuba's new Ambassador to Brazil...
...Bosch to Picasso. Valued at $1,700,000, the exhibition is but a fraction of Chrysler's total collection ("I began buying at 14, out of my allowance"), includes some topnotch masterpieces (Tintoretto's Flora, Titian's Portrait of the Admiral Vincenzo Capello, Soutine's Valet de Chambre), as well as some not-so-great works by great masters (Renoir's Pheasant, Derain's Renaissance-style Portrait of Lady Adby), which have good names if not topmost quality...
Robert Scher '60, as the "valet," is stiff and apparently ill-at-ease. But his role of omniscient apathy makes the distinguishing line between stiffness and stoicism fairly hazy. His eyelids are ossified, as per stage instructions...
...days when the English milord traveled through remote and dangerous foreign lands with nothing but a valet, a revolver and a universally acceptable bag of sovereigns, are, alas (and partly by our own folly), long gone," sighed the British weekly, Time & Tide, last week...