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...platform, shaking hands with the glittering stars, even Tom Dewey became so excited by the tumult & shouting that, in an unusually prankish gesture, he tossed his grey Homburg a full ten feet into the hands of a waiting bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Crucial Week | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...Cicero. One night last week Dago Mangano drove to Cicero, 111. for relaxation with Big Mike Pontelli (his bodyguard), and a girl named Rita Reyes, with whom Big Mike was enjoying a two-day binge. The trio drank innocently for several hours at the Paddock Lounge, a dim-lit bar which is tops in Syndicate society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Businessman | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Died. Edmund William Starling, 68, soft-mannered, hard-handed bodyguard and friend of five U.S. Presidents, from Wilson to Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4) ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...fortune; and Judith Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur. They carried long durra stalks, symbolizing spears. As they approached the sacred river, they chanted age-old incantations, their meanings lost in history. At Nile-edge they met another bodyguard, bearing bamboo poles with ostrich feathers, defending the revered founder, Nyakang. With thongs of twisted grass, the guards of Nyakang bound the willing Anei Kur, marched him into Fashoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: God's Last-born | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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