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...Northwest, where Harry Bridges and the C. I. O. are facing the ruthlessness of Dave Beck's A. F. of L. juggernaut, labor has again reaped the rewards of its disunity. Two years ago. Boss Beck and his teamsters elected volatile John F. Dore Mayor of Seattle over a pleasant Scandinavian councilman named Arthur Bernard Langlie. Seattle has since suffered from Dave Beck's vigorous assaults on the rising C. I. O. So by the time this year's municipal primaries rolled around, a rightist revolt was in the air. Mayor Dore sought re-election backed again...
Crimson speakers were Robert Beck '39, Barry Shooshan '39, while speaking for Williams were Barry Lennon and James O'Sullivan. The judges were D. M. Staley, head of the Staley College of the Spoken Word; B. Gullagher, coach of debating at the Rivers School; and Howard Higgins, dean of Emerson College...
Last week the Ellensburg frogs were becoming as talked about as the jumping frog of Calaveras County. From accredited scientists came serious assertions that they might be so many Rip van Winkles. Geologist George Beck of Ellensburg's State Normal School went to the Jordan home to see the monsters, said that these frogs might be early Eocene Age. "Just like seeing angels," he exclaimed...
Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap. The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, with their wilful, slow-witted heroes (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin), and their clever, conniving villains (Beck-messer, Mime, Alberich), are far & away Manhattan's favorite operas...
Last week after Pole Beck had returned to Warsaw, Danzig's private Führer Forster ended a speech in Berlin with this cryptic remark...