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...killers had dropped their pistols on the way out; one was a .32 Smith & Wesson, the other a .38 Colt which originally had been sold in the Middle West in the 1930s. That was all anybody knew. The police were intensely curious as to why Al's bodyguard, one Anthony Coppola, was in a drugstore across the street when Al was ventilated. Anthony was just doing what his kind always does; he was having a cup of coffee...
...next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
Looking like something out of an old Warner Bros. gangster film, hulking Ted Rij, Racketeer Johnny Dio's ex-bodyguard, slurred through the Fifth more than 35 times: "Standin' on my Con'stutional right, I 'cline to answer on grounds o' 'crimination." Woebegone, egg-bald Sam Zakman provided a sharply etched picture of a disillusioned Communist and displaced labor-racket boy. Zakman also provided the rare commodity of humor in describing Union Organizer Benny ("The Bug") Ross: "There's a fellow who did everything wrong, but he organized better than all of them...
...Algeria's militant nationalists, this was high treason, and Ali Chekkal was warned that his days were numbered. He decided that it was wiser not to return to Algiers, settled in a Paris hotel under the eyes of a three-man bodyguard provided day and night by the French government...
...great painting of The Last Meeting of Lee tind Jackson, appearing in the book section [ May 6], belongs to the estate of the late Colonel J. B. Sinnott, C.S.A., an aide and bodyguard of General Stonewall Jackson...