Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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...
Last week Tenor Lanza, a onetime street-gang wiseguy who never did a day's work until he was 21, was working hard for his money. In a sweltering rubber suit, he puffed along California roads or sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just...
...shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones lie buried there. Abdullah, right hand relaxed on the hilt of his ceremonial dagger, * walked easily, far ahead of his bodyguard. Talking animatedly with his companions, including his grandson, 15-year-old Emir Hussein, the King went up the steps to the entrance of the nearby Aqsa Mosque, slipped off his shoes, prepared to join 4,000 other Moslems at prayer. At that point a young man in Western clothes stepped...
...panicky rush. The accomplices, including a young boy who had been standing by with a reserve clip of ammunition, managed to get away. The murderer, according to one report, placed the gun to his right temple and shot himself; according to another version, it was the King's bodyguard who felled him where he stood...