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...present. There was the usual swelling of Lincolniana. The most compact was Paul Angle's The Lincoln Reader, the most controversial was J. G. Randall's Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman. The other myth amaking, the Roosevelt myth, was being shaped by varied hands, including F.D.R.'s bodyguard. Son Elliott edited a fat volume of his father's letters written between the ages of five and 22, and the President's Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor, brought out the platitudinous Wartime Correspondence Between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius...
Another biographer hated by Robert was Ward Hill Lamon, also a Lincoln law partner and later his bodyguard. Lamon was a big, good-natured brawler, whose "office was conveniently located over a saloon, the remainder of the second floor of the building being occupied by a house of assignation...
...midtown hotels, the polyglot parliamentarians became as invisible as so many native New Yorkers. There were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
Liberty-loving Uruguayans are proud of the unafraid and unaffected ways of their Presidents, who often drive their own cars, take their coffee in public places, without escort. Uruguay's new President, modest, serious Luis Batlle Berres (TIME, Aug. 11), follows the tradition. He has no bodyguard; there are no guards around his 30-acre quinta (farm) on the banks of the Santa Lucia River, twelve miles from Montevideo. But freedom has its risks. One night last week thieves got into the presidential chicken house, made off with 50 of His Excellency's 200 birds...
...commander in chief of the Sixth Panzer Army, Joseph ("Sepp") Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. "He had at most the ability to command a division," said Goring of the general whose blundering cost the Germans some 37,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dietrich," said Rundstedt simply, "is decent, but stupid." After the war, however, Dietrich found a job where he was really appreciated...