Word: companion
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Gentlemen and Others. In guarding five U.S. Presidents, Colonel Ed made most Presidential trips twice-once as advance man, once as guard-companion. He made two trips to Europe with Woodrow Wilson (and stood behind the President in the Hall of Mirrors while the Treaty of Versailles was being signed). He was with Warren G. Harding on the trip that ended fatally in San Francisco. He flew down to Buenos Aires in 1936 to clear the path for Franklin Roosevelt. But Colonel Ed was always more than a detective. He walked, fished, hunted and golfed with five U.S. Presidents...
...Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned up in London, while his Italian traveling companion went on to General Eisenhower's headquarters in Algiers...
Through the twilit Ligurian Sea, into that sea which Italians lately called Mare Nostrum, the Roma sailed with the companion battleships Italia and Vittorio Veneto, six cruisers and several destroyers. From Taranto, the Italian base in the south, the older, smaller battleships Caio Duilio and Andrea Doria, two cruisers and a destroyer were sailing through the same darkness to the same destination: Malta...
...tricky thing to judge on the surface, let alone from the air in a 400-mile-an-hour warplane. But if the pilots did indeed sink a transport of the "Conte di Savoia class," then it must have been either the 49,000-ton Savoia herself or her companion (but not sister) ship, the 51,000-ton Rex. Either would be the biggest merchant vessel sunk by military action during...
...Left. Mr. Johnston had the advantage of numbers in his debate with Britain's razor-tongued Socialist-Economist Harold Laski. Moderator on last week's University of Chicago Round Table radio program beamed from London was his traveling companion, the University's hustling Vice President William Benton, who is also vice chairman of the liberal-businessman U.S. Committee for Economic Development...