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...takes over at Fruehauf from Roy A. Fruehauf, 52, whose family founded the firm. Eased out as Fruehauf Trailer's chief executive 18 months ago, Roy Fruehauf must face a recently revived indictment accusing him of making an illegal $200,000 loan to ex-Teamster Union Boss Dave Beck...
...employed in U.S.A. Slices of fictional personal histories are wedged between slabs of headlines and impressionistic biographic profiles of real-life movers and shapers. Instead of U.S.A.'s sardonic portraits of such tycoons as Carnegie, Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst, there are acid sketches of Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Harry Bridges. Dos Passos' own fictional characters are manikins, but they acquire a certain animation and excitement by being placed on the revolving stage of 20th century social and intellectual history...
...become "one of the enemy." To a Social Democratic Party congress in Hannover, Brandt said: "It is true. I have been called Willy Brandt for 'only' the past 28 years." He had adopted the name at 19, when he fled his native town of Lübeck to work with the anti-Nazi underground in Norway. When he returned to Germany in 1945, "little more than the memory of a not entirely easy childhood bound me to the name of my birth and the name of my then unmarried mother." He continued to call himself Willy Brandt because...
...opening choice, Williams' The Glass Menagerie, received an affecting rendition in Agassiz under the direction of John D. Hancock '61--with laudable work in each of its four roles by Mary Graydon, Kathryn Humphreys '60, Joel Crothers '62, and Peter G. Gesell '61. There followed, under John C. Beck '60, an adequate if unexciting traversal of Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates at Pi Eta. In the spring, Agassiz housed the group's intriguingly staged production of a poor dramatization of Voltaire's Candide. Back at Pi Eta, director Hancock had not sufficiently gelled his production of O'Casey...
...RICHARD BECK Fort Washington...