Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honolulu press conference last week, 61-year-old, keg-shaped Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, turned to a sport-shirted little man who was sitting silently by and barked: "Who runs this union, Jimmy?" Grinning ingenuously, James R. Hoffa, ninth vice president of the I.B.T. and most undisciplined of Beck's bad boys (TIME, March 19), jumped to his feet and replied: "You run it, Dave. The board meeting today certainly proved that...
Superficially, Hoffa's answer seemed no more than the truth. That afternoon, at a meeting of the I.B.T. general executive board in Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Beck and the board had shelved Hoffa's pet project: a loan of $400,000 to the International Longshoremen's Association, which was expelled from the A.F.L. more than two years ago for flagrant corruption and racketeering. Beck also asked and got from the board virtually unlimited authority to clean out corruption in the I.B.T. itself...
...Beck had been seriously interested in cleaning up the I.B.T., one of his first targets should have been New York, where a specially created federal grand jury last week began an investigation of seven racket-linked teamster locals that Hoffa recently set up to insure the election of pro-Hoffa officers by the New York Teamsters Joint Council. (The election itself is being disputed in the courts.) Beck, however, professed a complete lack of interest in the New York situation. He insisted solemnly that "in my opinion it was an honest election." He also made it clear that the shelving...
...blonde and bustling, Pia is one in a series of foreign jazz pianists-including a blind Scotsman (Joe Saye). an Argentine (Enrique Villegas). a German (Jutta Hipp) and a Japanese (Toshiko AkiyoshH -currently performing in the U.S. These pianists represent a reimported export, and Netherlander Beck is a fine sample of how exportable and reimportable jazz is. If Bach fugues can be learned outside Germany, there seems to be no reason why New Orleans riffs cannot be learned out side the U.S. "I dig jive," says the girl from Holland, "but the most important thing is not to goof when...
...toured Europe, North Africa. Australia. Indonesia. From Baltimore, she and the rest of her trio (American guitar and bass players ). after a stop at Washington. D.C.. will go to Chicago's jazz emporium, the Blue Note. Chicago is an exacting town for jazz musicians, but buxom Pia Beck is not worried. "I can always go back to Holland." she says. 'T send a thousand cats a night over there...