Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beck, 30, a Dutch pianist who is sometimes called "the Flying Dutchess.'' cannot tell a fifth from a fipple flute, but that does not keep her from bopping along on the cool side of the street and leaving the sunny side to Dixielanders. When Pia took off after a vocal chorus in English last week at the Tijuana, a Baltimore nightclub, listeners cried. "Hey, this chick's not from Europe-she's from Brooklyn...
Last week, bending before Meany's wrath, Seattle's Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, directed Hoffa to take no further action on the I.L.A. alliance until it had been discussed by the teamsters' executive board in Honolulu this month...
...demonstrated that his prime interest is not a clean waterfront but a teamster-dominated waterfront. It was characteristic of the methods that have made Jimmy Hoffa, 43, one of the hottest new stars in labor's firmament and the man most likely to succeed the aging (61) Dave Beck as boss of the 1,400,000-man I.B.T...
Special Conception. In many respects little (5 ft. 5 in.) Jimmy Hoffa and the man whose throne he seeks are cut from the same pattern. Both Beck and Hoffa are blocky, apparently tireless men who shun liquor and tobacco. Both operate with the hard-shell pragmatism of 19th century coal barons. Alongside Jimmy Hoffa, however, the table-pounding Beck appears a mild-mannered...
Expanding Sphere. In 1952, in return for helping Dave Beck supplant the late Dan Tobin as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Hoffa was made an I.B.T. vice president. Since then Beck has watched with apparent helplessness while Hoffa expanded his sphere of influence. Not long ago, in a bid to get enough votes to control the teamsters' New York Joint Council, Hoffa quietly procured charters for seven small New York locals, dominated by convicted Extortionist Johnny Dio. Nor does Hoffa's ambition stop with control of the I.B.T. as it now stands. Ultimately, as his negotiations...