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Word: becks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio work with his publicity business. Tex already had sent one of his vice presidents, William Safire, to Boston for a three-hour interview with Goldfine to get "the feel" of his personality. In Washington, McCrary allowed that as an old Sherman Adams friend he had come at the beck of Lawyer Robb to help Goldfine on a basis of "no expenses, no fee - for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lawyers & Flacks Made Goldfine a Production | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Francisco last week Gustav J. Beck of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center manned a demonstration booth to show general practitioners how easily they can now do just this in their own offices-with gadgets that look like babies' croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Viruses & Cancer | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...stock to the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. Landa proceeded to raid the raider, made himself a cool $1,000,000 on Fruehauf stock during the fight. Landa welcomes allies from any quarter. During the Fruehauf fight, he negotiated a $1,500,000 loan from the then Teamster President Dave Beck to finance Fruehauf stock purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Proxy King | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Author Ford writes with complete conviction of his own psychic powers. At his own seances, spirits of the dead ("discarnates," he calls them) manifest themselves through Ford. No historic figures have appeared at Ford's beck and call, and he is suspicious of mediums who claim they can get through to the well-known dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rappers & Knockers | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Korean war for his reporting on the Little Rock story; Clark Mollenhoff, 37, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, for stories on labor racketeering so well documented that they were used by Senate investigators as leads in the devastating exposure of Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Leadership | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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