Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the McClellan committee planned to hear Jim Elkins' tape recordings and to take testimony from District Attorney William Langley and Teamsters' Bosses Clyde Crosby and Frank Brewster. Sure to be questioned soon is Teamsters' International President Dave Beck, who abruptly returned this week from Europe, after Labor Secretary James Mitchell had canceled Beck's nomination as U.S. delegate to an International Labor Organization meeting in West Germany...
...wish to go into town, for the town usually comes out to them. One of this tournament's chief attractions is that half of CC's enrollment is female. This half usually ends up out at the Broadmoor during the weekend. The Queen of the Tournament (this year Pauline Beck) has the responsibility of picking 50 other girls from CC to serve as her court. This group then has the responsibility of entertaining the visiting teams at a reception given for them, and in general of making themselves available for the visiting players' entertainment...
Brewster was also identified as having okayed a $17,000 union loan to help get another Seattle gambler out from under a federal tax lien. Dave Beck himself, it was said, ordered a $30,000 loan to finance a saloon operated by a University of Washington classmate of Dave Beck Jr. in a building owned by Teamsters' President Beck...
...Seattle. Teamster Boss Dave Beck's home town, the contrast in newspaper coverage was even more pronounced. The Seattle Times (circ. 208,224), though long chary of offending Baron Beck, had assigned Pulitzer Prizewinning Reporter Ed Guthman to ferret out the story as soon as it learned of the Oregonian expose last year. Last week it red-bannered the Washington hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play...
...Rosemarie Beck, 33, wife of fledgling Novelist Robert Phelps and mother of an eight-year-old son, is admired for her painterly glazes and sensitive, careful technique. Her House of the Sun-No. 3 (opposite), now at the Whitney, was done over a three-to-five-month period, can be viewed with interest from any direction (for the position in which Painter Beck painted it, rotate page one-quarter turn to the left). Her goal, to achieve "the effect of a new light," bound in from all directions, is ambitious, but she says: "The older generation had the real terror...