Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the P-I in the past month, for the first time, has run editorials and syndicated columns criticizing the Teamsters, it has not yet run a line condemning Beck or Brewster; nor has it carried one staff-written story on the hearings. The Times, too, has made only the mildest editorial references to Beck, but it has been busy unearthing local skulduggery by the Teamsters, and has assigned a staff reporter to cover the Washington hearings...
Their digging resulted in the roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...
Rshface & Bug-Eyes. Without the Oregonian's disclosures, the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee might have looked in on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters merely as part of a general inquiry into the abuse of union welfare funds, and, through Teamster Boss Dave Beck's longstanding income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster...
...Oregonian-Journal battle had a parallel in Seattle, Beck's headquarters, where the Times (circ. 190,789) teamed eagerly with the Oregonian on the story and Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 208,224) did its best to ignore the scandal (TIME, March 11). When Beck returned from Europe last month, he at first refused to be interviewed by any newsman except the PI's Douglass Welch-who with P-I Editorial Writer Nard Jones has turned out a Horatio Algerish version of Beck's life struggle. Later, when the Times gleefully quoted Beck's admission...
...varsity met the first team of approximately its own caliber when defeated Duke 7 to 2 and 8 to 1, and this match provided the outstanding individual performance of the trip. After Dale Junta had bowed to Duke's Lief Beck, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6, in the first day's play, Steve Gottlieb took over the top position to completely out manuever Beck for a handy 6-1, 6-2 win the following...