In 1964, when the Beatles landed at Idlewild, the fifth guy off the plane was a young London Daily Express photographer, Harry Benson—who liked New York so much he never left. As his new book, People: Photographs by Harry Benson (Chronicle Books), shows, he's since built a career out of knowing exactly where to go for the action. Photos of the Reagans necking—taken for V.F. during a six-minute session—schoolboys cheering Churchill, and a hysterical Ethel Kennedy beseeching a throng to give her wounded husband more air are accompanied by Benson's forthright captions. "Harry's not much of a Sunday photographer," explains his wife and manager, Gigi. "I take all the photos of the kids. He only gets revved up on assignments." Remarks Harry, "Pictures I like to take say, 'This was the time, this was the place, I was there.' "