Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Labbe found he was being followed everywhere he went, and asked a friend to accompany him as a bodyguard...
...disported himself gaily at his favorite fun-and-games resort in the Italian Alps. With him were a passel of relatives and Red-riding hoods, as well as his aging doxy-soxer girl friend Leonilde Iotti. The entourage's most notable hood was Togliatti's shadowlike Bodyguard Armando ("Armandino") Rosati. Italy's anti-Communist press chortled mightily at the idea of taking thuggish Armandino along on a peaceful holiday. Sample snide caption (in Rome's Il Tempo): "Togliatti is caught by the photographer while he risks a few steps in the open...
...heroic as Niko's returning to Greece himself. He decided to send Roula. Last February, Commissar Roula slipped across the border with her lover's instructions to reorganize the underground and bring back information on all the key figures in Greece. Niko's trusted old bodyguard was with her. Last week Athens announced that the two had been captured, and the Boss's Wife charged with espionage. In her pockets they found wads of drachmas and six well-thumbed photographs of five-year-old Joseph, sent to her by Niko since her arrival in Greece...
...bodyguard follows him everywhere, and Detroit newspapers never mention his present address. Last September Reuther moved to a converted summer cottage on a trout stream near Detroit, where he lives with his wife, daughters Linda Ann, 12, and Elisabeth Luise, 7, two lambs, two kittens, one horse, one German shepherd, one cocker spaniel, one sheep, one parakeet and one goldfish...
...York'') Campagna, 54, retired Capone gang gunman, extortionist and gambling boss; of a heart attack suffered while playing a 30-lb. fish on a pleasure cruiser at sea; in Miami. A graduate of New York's "Five Points" gang, Campagna followed Capone to Chicago as his bodyguard, later, after Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion, shared control of his vice and gambling syndicate with Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti. Sentenced to ten years in prison in a $1,000,000 movie extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving 3½ years, retired...