Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week dedicated its white marble, four-story headquarters in Washington, just across the plaza from the Capitol. Guests received embossed invitations; from Hollywood came Movie Stars Pat O'Brien, Walter Pidgeon, Dan Dailey and George Murphy-all A.F.L. card carriers. In his dedicatory speech, Teamster Boss Dave Beck noted that some critics had complained that the building was "perhaps too grand" for working folk, but he told them: "This is a tribute to what the working people of America can accomplish...
...Great Man. In Columbus, Ohio, Nathan S. Beck got a letter in the mail with only his photo and city as an address, found later that his friend L. G. Lundstrom had sent the letter from California to determine if he really "was a big shot in his home town...
Over the years, Dr. Beck has performed such operations nearly 300 times. In the last 100 operations, he has had only six fatalities, all of them, he claims, from the normal deterioration of badly diseased hearts rather than from the operation itself. The principal purpose of the operation, says Beck, is to "take the steam out of successive attacks," which occur in 50% to 80% of coronary cases, with the chances of survival steadily decreasing. Said he to reporters: "Coronary surgery can't cure, but it ... prolongs the patient's life and makes him more comfortable. Nine...
...Many of Beck's fellow heart specialists pointed out that 300 operations is not a large enough statistical sampling to make a case for or against the Beck technique. Dr. Paul Dudley White, Ike's chief specialist and no enemy of heart surgery, had no comment...
Bach: Toccata in D Minor (E. Power Biggs; Columbia). An organ tour of Europe in which- Organist Biggs plays the same piece on 14 instruments, the oldest dating from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...