Word: escorter
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...Tory councilmen in her broad Lancashire accent. "We have a Corporation ratcatcher, but he goes for the wrong sort." Once she took a two-foot megaphone into the chamber to help make herself heard. Another time she called a Tory opponent a "deliberate liar," and cheerfully accepted a police escort from the chamber rather than take it back...
...British owner of millions and a title, Guinness has an easy assignment. He is seldom called on to do more than say a few lines or leer a bit at his young escort. He does the latter admirably, but without suggesting the talents as a comedian which he has shown in most of his earlier pictures. However, Odile Versois, the salesgirl, is an engaging contrast to Guinness' somber tweeds. As a sort of personification of the infinite possibilities offered by Paris in April, she burbles and bubbles over with joie de vivre. Next to her, even the sleek and well...
...Died. Vice Admiral C. A. F. ("Alphabet") Sprague, 59, veteran naval aviator, commander of the group of six escort carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts that helped save the U.S. beachhead in the Philippines by turning back the bulk of the Japanese fleet in the Battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; of a heart attack; in San Diego...
...Salesman Tom Watson Jr. enlisted and spent the next 5½ years as a transport pilot in the Army Air Forces. Right after Pearl Harbor he married Olive Field Cawley, then started shuttling between Russia and the Middle East on staff missions. In his B-24 he once flew escort for Britain's Prime Minister Churchill on a long flight from Moscow to Teheran. When he got out in 1946, he was a lieutenant colonel with 2,000 hours of flight time, the Air Medal, and senior pilot's wings...
...rails nor waves flags, but sticks tersely to its theme. Its hero, Commander George Krause, U.S.N., is indeed a good shepherd. His flock is a convoy of 37 merchant ships zigzagging across the Atlantic in 1942. To herd them safely to harbor in England, Krause has only four escort vessels, one of which he personally commands. Almost as serious as his weakness in ships is his own inexperience; this is his first taste of war, although he is an Annapolis man with 20 years of routine duty behind him. The serious-minded son of a Lutheran minister, unlucky in marriage...