Word: bodyguard
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...while, life in the Krogh empire is delightfully plush. Anthony becomes Krogh's bodyguard, teaches his joyless boss how to relax, begins an affair on the side with an English lady tourist, and picks up extra change by funneling news about Krogh to a journalist. But when Anthony discovers that Krogh is swindling half the world, he rebels: he is not "unscrupulous enough to be successful." Suddenly dangerous, Anthony is casually destroyed by one of Krogh's assistants...
...battlements of the Tower of London are, as every U.S. tourist knows well, Yeomen Warders. At the drop of one of their black band box hats, they will explain at length that England's first Tudor king, Henry VII, recruited them in 1485 to serve as his personal bodyguard, and that they earned their proud name in 1669 when the Grand Duke of Tuscany wrote: "They are great eaters of beef . . . They might be called beefeaters." By custom, each must have distinguished himself in service with the army or royal marines...
BULGARIA-Vulko Chervenkov (the name means "The Red Wolf") is one of the two original Cominformists whose fortunes have improved since 1947 (the other: Ana Pauker's rival, Gheorghiu-Dej). A veteran NKVD tough who spent 19 years in Moscow, Chervenkov became brother-in-law and bodyguard to famed Communist Georgi Dimitrov. He wore a necktie for the first time in 1948, now as boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria...
...park's deserted bandstand. But as Marshall turned to go, the three men barred his way. Chief Inspector William Hughes of Scotland Yard's Special (counterespionage) Branch, stepped up: "You are William Martin Marshall?" The young man nodded. "We have reason to believe," said Hughes, onetime bodyguard to Prime Ministers Churchill and Attlee, "that you have committed offenses under the Official Secrets Act. We are arresting...
...they 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...