Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...into his room. "How old are you?" snapped the Red. "Forty-eight," answered the Minister of the Interior, looking up from his meal. "Ah," sighed the Communist, "You made me lose a bet. I just laid down a thousand lire that you were 52 at least." Scelba's bodyguard, who this time had managed to stay by his side and were fully expecting an assassination attempt, sighed with relief, and Scelba took a nap in a chair before an open window, a perfect target for any Red marksman...
...White House faced a labor problem all its own. Because the U.S. Secret Service work week was recently cut from 48 hours to 40, it had to ask last week for 23 more T-men to fill in the extra shifts needed for the presidential bodyguard and other Secret Service chores...
...will leave behind when he goes to Mexico as ambassador. The detective who had chauffeured the mayor's Cadillac was appointed Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, forthwith applied for retirement on the $6,000-a-year pension of a commissioner. O'Dwyer's other driver and his bodyguard, $5,150-a-year detectives, were also appointed deputy police commissioners, entitled to the same melon-sized pensions. As for O'Dwyer's executive secretary, the mayor created a $10,000-a-year...