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...which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone bodyguard...
...Bologna, Aldo Cucchi, in private life a surgeon who also specialized in studies of hemp workers' diseases. Cucchi had led an Italian partisan unit against the Nazis and Fascists, won his country's highest gold medal for bravery. In the Chamber of Deputies, he acted as a bodyguard for Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
Died. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 83, most revered patriot of Finland, sometime President (1944-46), leader of his country's armies in three wars of independence against Soviet Russia; after an abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave...
...never a Nazi himself and regretted that the Fürhrer had surrounded himself with "scalawags." Yet it was Rommel who was assigned for awhile to improve the discipline of the Hitler Youth, who was later hand-picked by Hitler to command the Fürhrer's personal bodyguard. Rommel's supposed enthusiasm for the Hitler program, says Young, was merely a piece of internal Nazi propaganda that irritated Rommel himself. In this, as in other conclusions, Author Young's biography naturally reflects his postwar sources among Rommel's family and well-wishers...
...smartest air operators ever to hit Central America. Back in 1934, after a hitch in the U.S. Navy, Joe Silverthorne became a crew chief for New Zealand-born Lowell Yerex's TACA airline. Brassy and hardfisted, he soon caught the eye of Yerex, who made him his personal bodyguard and general handyman...