Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BECK Champaign...
Also, Illinois: James C. Beck of Kirkland and Chicago; Alan S. Gratch of Leverett and Chicago; Richard M. Rosenberg of Winthrop and Chicago; and Donald R. Spuehler of Kirkland and Elgin; Iowa: Jack J. Stiffler of Adams and Mitchellville; Kansas: Karl G. Heider of Winthrop and Lawrence and Cliff F. Thompson of Lowell and Kansas City; Maine: James F. Armstrong of Dunster and Wilton and Bruce F. Cameron of Kirkland and Bristol...
...Telling. The U.S., too, has its liutai. Standouts: Wisconsin's Carl Beck er, Philadelphia's William Moennig & Son, Manhattan's Simone Sacconi. It also has such well-grounded amateurs as New York's Norman Pickering, who makes stringed instruments when he is not developing fine components for high-fidelity machines. By use of electronic devices, he has isolated dozens of "resonance systems" which give violins their unique sound. To work out his finished instruments' initial "tightness" of tone, he uses a mechanical generator that vibrates the bridge. But most professionals simply get students to play...
They are well-lighted, pastel-tinted and smog-free (there is no heavy industry), and their signs cry out familiar brand names: Remington Rand, Sylvania, Paper-Mate, U.S. Rubber, Textron, Maidenform, A.S. Beck, Carborundum, Van Raalte, Bostitch, Sunbeam...
When the Honolulu meeting was over, a reporter asked Dave Beck if the decisions taken had been designed to "put the brakes on" Jimmy Hoffa, whose organizing talents have spread his domain into 27 states. "Positively not!" boomed Beck. "Why in hell would we want to put the brakes on anybody who is doing that good a job of organizing? I wish I had 40 more like...