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Dieudonne Coste and the late Joseph Marie Lebrix who "sickened of being a valet to Coste." Coste and Maurice Bellonte, his Paris-New York copilot, also drifted apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Friendships, Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing to her in 1920 had stated that she had been married to Mr. Erlanger; five employes of an Atlantic City hotel; an actress; three waiters; a doorman; the proprietor of a suburban inn; a Pullman porter; a hairdresser; a former valet; various tradesmen; a room clerk in Manhattan's smart Ambassador Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Common Law | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...chief of staff omniscient M. Andre Boissard) the Premier of France was equipped to put President Hoover's experts and key men on their mettle. Half a ton of French documents, code books, official stationery and what not the Premier also brought. But plain Pierre Laval brought no valet, wore his white wash tie, came "dressed like a salesman," as Paris papers said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Salesman & Suite | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...dude" expedition. Twelve men will go with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have a personal Indian valet; will get travel. Inca exploration, fishing, hunting, mountain-climbing, a four-month vacation. No women, not even Mrs. Dickey will go along. On the last Orinoco trip Dr. Dickey, 25 years a physician in the tropics, told her not to eat native raw vegetables unless she first washed them with permanganate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dickey's Dudes | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix bitterly declared that he ''was sick of being a valet to Coste." But Coste himself was not going to run in this race. Instead he had loaned his plane (also a gift of Perfumer Coty) to his friend Paul Codos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hyphen, Question Mark, Period | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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