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...from active duty so he could resume his job of learning how to run the empire. Six days a week he gets up at 6 a.m., is at the Rouge plant by 8. There, under the wing of Ford's right-hand man, aide-de-camp, shadow and bodyguard, bantam-sized Harry Bennett, young Henry is learning his job. He gets other frequent lessons from Ford's production boss, white-crested Charles E. Sorensen. Henry II puts in a ten-to twelve-hour day, finds little time for golf (he shoots in the nineties) or to take pictures...
...protect himself against assault, he acquired a bodyguard, wore a bulletproof vest and an automatic. He got out just in time. He is somewhat touchy about the Pacific war, thinks that the U.S. is doing far too little in that theater, and has said...
...Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized...
...after passing the day alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...
...morning of Dec. 12 he awoke at his usual hour, 5. At 5:30 he heard shots. His bodyguard ran in to tell him there seemed to be some sort of mutiny, that he had better take to the mountain behind the house. Dressed only in his nightshirt and without his false teeth, he tried to leave by a side door. It was locked. He and two of his men had to climb a ten-foot wall. On top of it the Generalissimo slipped and fell into the moat outside, a drop of 30 feet. For three minutes he could...