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...dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The British Election: The Tories | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...plot at home. Naif, deciding he liked the feel of power, was conniving with two cabinet ministers and Jordan's chief justice to dissolve Parliament and proclaim himself King. He would be backed by the guns of the Arab Legion's Hashemite regiment, the King's bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Friend or Foe? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Vacationing in Venice, Winston Churchill was behaving in a strangely camera-shy fashion. An Italian newsreel cameraman managed to get some pictures, only to lose them when a bodyguard snatched the film. Two other photographers in a rowboat had better luck when they caught Churchill in the surf, where the only thing he could do was splash water at them. He cooled his nerves later in the casino, where he played roulette until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Young in Heart | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...chipped, but this was the work of Yankee soldiers who passed through Winchester during the War Between the States. Furthermore, they asked, where else except in Winchester could the general's remains lie surrounded by the graves of Revolutionary heroes "who formed themselves into a bodyguard and were pledged to follow wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: General Morgan's Body | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

Deeply wounded, Frankie took Ava off to Acapulco to do some nightclubbing with Hedy Lamarr and her new husband, Ted Stauffer, owner of a local nightclub. Hedy, however, pointedly snubbed Ava; and Frankie, this time with a bodyguard, found another fight when a photographer snapped a picture of the happy couple. While the bodyguard threatened to put a bullet through the photographer unless he gave up the film, Frankie shouted to reporters: "This is a private affair of my own, and I don't have to talk to anyone, you sonsabitches." The whole affair did not seem so private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Flowers | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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