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Atwood (ret.) of Arizona, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Princess Alice, President Roosevelt, Bodyguard Thomas Quakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: You and I Know -- | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...happens that the All-American, All-Ivy backfield come to Pottawatomie as bodyguard (with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

...races. Lin Yutang and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek show us China from the inside--John Gunther and Carl Crow from the outside. J.B. Powell continues to give us his important journal of opinion, the China Weekly Review, though he is on Wang's blacklist and has to have a bodyguard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where U.S. newsmen block the road of Japanese ambition | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...State. On the fifth, Kansas came in with all its 18. Someone shouted, "You're in!" A radio crew elbowed through the crowd with a microphone. Policemen appeared, wanted to know who was who. If Mr. Willkie was really going to be the nominee, they had to bodyguard him. Mr. Willkie added up the tally on the fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gentleman from Indiana | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...graduating refused a job in his father's office. In March he set off for a "vacation in Mexico." Secretly, before leaving Manhattan, Sheldon Harte had visited Leon Trotsky's lawyer, Albert Goldman, who hired the youth to work in Mexico City as a secretary-bodyguard to the Great Exile. Last month Sheldon was kidnapped by a terrorist group who riddled the Trotsky home with bullets, tossed an incendiary bomb into the courtyard, killed nobody in the house (TIME, June 3). Next day Jesse S. Harte (until then unaware of his son's job with Trotsky) enplaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Quicklime and Communists | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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