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Ringleaders Earl Ward and "Crazy" Jack Hyatt. In 1950 Hyatt, with two other prisoners, had seized Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams during an inspection tour at Marquette Prison, knifed a state trooper bodyguard, and attempted to escape, using the governor as a shield. Ward, once an inmate of a mental institution, has a record for kidnaping, robbery, narcotics and armed assault. Said Fox: "Earl Ward is a natural leader. He and the other boys are to be congratulated on the good faith with which they have bargained...
...House in Cape Town six miles away. The Ford parked behind, and its driver, a burly, red-faced cop, ran to the Packard. He leaned inside and slowly, very slowly, helped out the most powerful man in Africa: Prime Minister Daniel François Malan. Half supported by his bodyguard, 78-year-old Daniel Malan mounted the steps and disappeared inside. A watching Negro spat. That afternoon, Malan (pronounced m' lawn) squatted on the front bench of the House of Assembly and heard the opposition call him a "Hitlerite," a charge which he has certainly invited...
Three Days. Padilla stayed right where he was. He also sent word to Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, Nov. 26) that it was time to show Negros Occidental he meant his pledge of honest, free elections. Magsaysay promptly sent a bodyguard plus 300 marines, later a large contingent of R.O.T.C. men. Then, three days before the balloting, Padilla's bodyguard was withdrawn-exactly on whose orders no one knows...
...called the "greatest football possibility" he'd seen in a long time, jumps up on the platform every Sunday after Feeney is through and says if anybody tries to hurt Feeney, it'll be over his dead body. Hugh, and his brother Joe, a former Harvard man, form a bodyguard for the aging preacher that rarely leaves his side...
...sharpest characters in Tokyo's gaudy Ginza district, Konomi has been in his time a gangster and political terrorist in Shanghai, a smuggler, black-marketeer and saloonkeeper in Japan. Konomi is also a man with important political connections. To forestall trouble, he is constantly accompanied by a bodyguard, a onetime lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Army. Still and all, it was as a humanitarian that Konomi filed a request with the Welfare Ministry back in 1949 to build a bathhouse for Tokyo's working classes...