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Photographer John Phillips aboard boat posing in front of LIFE flag he hoisted in hopes of getting pictures of a Greek royal cruise from which press was barred. (Photo by John Phillips\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Marshal Tito, then a Yugoslav resistance leader, was holed up in a cave in 1944 wearing a uniform made out of a horse blanket when John Phillips (1914-1996) arrived to do a portrait. He integrated himself into Tito\u2019s life so completely that he once followed the revolutionary to the bathroom. He was quite easy to work with\u2014except when it came to his dog. One time Tito insisted, \u201c\u2018You watch my dog. He jumps.\u2019 He had Tigar belly-flop in the water. He said, \u2018Maybe you better get another picture.\u2019 That was the only time he worried. He was so proud of Tigar’s jumping.” Once, to get pictures in Nazi-occupied Austria, Phillips rented a fancy car and put swastikas on the side. Phillips, who left LIFE five years after the war, said, “During the war, nobody could give us instructions because the movement orders were secret. You went along, dreaming up your stories on your own.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Adapted from <\/span>The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Execution of Prime Minister Laszlo Bardossy at Marko Place prison. (Photo by John Phillips\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Terrified young Jewish girl Rachel Levy, 7, fleeing from a street with burning buildings as the Arabs sack the Holy City after its surrender during Palestinian Civil war. (Photo by John Phillips\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

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Yugoslavian infantrymen and an officer dancing the conga-like Kolo while singing. (Photo by John Phillips\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marshal Tito, then a Yugoslav resistance leader, was holed up in a cave in 1944 wearing a uniform made out of a horse blanket when John Phillips (1914-1996) arrived to do a portrait. He integrated himself into Tito\u2019s life so completely that he once followed the revolutionary to the bathroom. 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