Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Dubuque is technically-but not wholly-right. The actual negotiations were not between Beck and the symphony, but between Beck's press agents and the radio station. But the symphony board formally approved the arrangement, and Conductor Katims submitted to publicity pictures with Dave Beck's off-key concertmaster, Frank Brewster...
...MYRL E. BECK...
Under the McClellan committee's thumb last week was Dave Beck Jr., 36-year-old, balding facsimile of his egg-bald Teamster-boss father. The long-elusive Junior lost no time on the amenities, plopped his 210-lb. frame into the witness chair, and settled right down to his pleas of possible self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment. He gave his name and address, then began to sound like a tape recording of dear old dad. Beck's bad boy managed to run up 124 uses of the Fifth (papa topped 200), and in one burst of speed...
Staunchly upholding family tradition, Beck Junior refused to acknowledge that he knew his own father (Beck Senior would not admit to Junior). When New York Senator Irving Ives snapped: "For whom were you named?" Junior smirked, crimsoned under his tan, and refused to say.* While his icy-eyed, vigorous father showed every sign of interest in his own undoing before the labor investigating committee. Beck Junior exhibited nothing but slouching boredom as he heard charges that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited...
...surface, the Beck Junior bearing seemed just as depressing as any other Teamster hearing but there was more to it than met the ear; Lawyer John McClellan, nettled by reluctant witnesses, was hard at work trying to define some legal limits on the capricious use of the Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate...