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...Fred Beck's column of homespun advertising in the Los Angeles Times has as many readers as Westbrook Pegler's column. This intense reader following has made a $5 million enterprise of the Los Angeles Farmers Market, which less than ten years ago was a vacant lot and an idea...
...Fred Beck's trick is to belittle his merchandise. This is a sure-fire way to attract attention in Los Angeles. Typical Beck comment: "Our tomatoes are tasteless. We'll let you know when they are good again." Readers, who like his frankness, jam the 84-stall market from 9 to 6 every...
...time during the war. Sweden's stubborn insistence lifted a paralyzing four-month ban on overseas shipping through the Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...
...R.A.F. began to explore the strategy and potentialities of mass raids in March 1942, with a concentrated, 30-minute, night assault on Lübeck. "It was not a vital wound or anything like it but it was an unpleasant jolt...
Although Ehrlich and Alter were Jews and Socialists, they were openly associated with the anti-Semitic, semi-fascist Polish government of Josef Beck. Escaping into Soviet Russia after the German seizure of western Poland, they undertook to supply to the Polish government-in-exile military information on the U. S. S. R. They were arrested in August, 1941, and convicted on these charges. However, under the terms of a friendship pact signed between Russia and Poland, they were released. Provided with Red Cross funds, the two organized a Polish relief committee. Using this project as a front, they began distributing...