Word: chauffeur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he returned to his quarters-the entire third floor of 27 rooms, 15 baths, private dining room and elevator, costing $500 a day for himself and entourage (four Albanian bodyguards, three governesses, one chauffeur, one manservant, one ladies' maid, one pressagent, five Italian policemen...
Neither his wife nor his son nor his employers knew what dreams whirled in the head of Maxime Formartin. Perhaps-unlike Thurber's elaborately dreaming Walter Mitty-Maxime himself did know. He was a lowly handyman, chauffeur and clerk for the firm of A. Freyman & Van Loo, Antwerp shippers. Long years of faithful service had brought him one occasional pleasure and privilege: going to the bank to draw some of the firm's money for import duties...
...stopped the car and ordered out its occupants. They turned out to be National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, 56, a pudgy onetime pastry chef who is now acting chief of the French Communist Party (while Chief Maurice Thorez convalesces on the Black Sea), his wife Gilberte, a burly bodyguard, a chauffeur-and two dead pigeons. Police believed the birds were homing pigeons hastily killed. Mme. Duclos insisted that they were the gift of a friend-for stewing with fresh green peas. She didn't explain what use was to be made of the short-wave radio, the rubber-covered truncheon...
...Beat. Averell Harriman is the only candidate in history to arrive on the sidewalks of New York via a lifetime of private railroad cars, first-class steamships, private airplanes and chauffeur-driven limousines. He is worth some $40 million and owner of homes in Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn...
Robber Baron. In Los Angeles, two service stations complained that they had been held up by a masked man who arrived in a chauffeur-driven limousine, completed each job with a command to his driver: "Home, James...