An unusually luxurious limousine standing in front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior fittings silver and ivory. Reporter De Long subsequently learned more facts about the limousine. It was a bullet-proof Maybach-Zeppelin. 22 ft. long, weighing four tons. with 12-gear shift and capable of 100 m.p.h. Its cost: $52.000. "Whose is it?'' he asked inside the hotel, and was given a card: E. VIRGIL NEAL
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