Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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...