Word: becks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever Dave Beck wants anything, he goes after it. That is how he became a top man in the A.F.L. Teamsters (membership: 1,000,000), and labor overlord of the West. Last week, Beck showed how he was going after up to 2,000,000 new members for the A.F.L.'s biggest union...
...type of woman, Perle Mesta is an Oklahoma widow, whose wealth came from a marriage of Oklahoma oil and Pittsburgh machine tools. Not even her warmest admirers, who liked her liveliness, would credit her with overwhelming charm or notable wit. But ambassadors, Senators and Cabinet officers come at her beck. In a city where a hostess' success can be scored like points in a cribbage game by counting up the rank of her guests, Perle Mesta outscores them all. Unlike her predecessors, Perle Mesta won her position not by prestige and not alone by wealth...
...wooing lonely widows, he was amazed by his own gift for bringing happiness to others. Though he assiduously mulcted his sweethearts of their savings, they fairly beamed with gratitude at his attentions. But little Ray's gift was his undoing-he attracted his own nemesis, Mrs. Martha Jule Beck...
Florida-born Martha Beck appeared to be eminently respectable. She was the mother of two, a Methodist, an experienced hospital superintendent. Little Ray got her name through a "Lonely Hearts Club" where he started most of his pitches, and he wrote her admiring letters. But when he went to Pensacola to meet her, he discovered that she was not quite his type-she had no money. Also, she weighed 200 Ibs., had wrestler's arms, a terraced chin and the cold eye of a jail matron...
...Dave Beck. 5. Joe Ryan...