Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other public discussion of President Eisenhower's heart was added last week a recommendation from Cleveland's noted Heart Surgeon Claude S. Beck which stirred up a loud murmur of controversy. The recommendation: that Ike be examined in six months and, "if this proves the risk to be not too great," that he submit to heart surgery to extend his life expectancy and permit him to carry a bigger work load...
...Beck mentioned President Eisenhower as a candidate for the operation after he had described its technique before the annual assembly of the District of Columbia Medical Society in Washington. The operation, known in medical circles simply as "Beck 1," is one which he pioneered 19 years ago. In it, the surgeon slits open the sac surrounding the heart, and rubs both the inside of the sac and the heart itself with a rough-headed instrument, causing acute inflammation. Finely powdered asbestos is then sprinkled on the heart covering, and the resulting abrasive action between the heart and its sac adds...
Mann himself was a product of the old European order and tradition. He had been born to a life of large and splendid ease in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, one of the historic free cities of North Germany. When he was born, Wilhelm I was Kaiser, Bismarck was Chancellor; his father, a prosperous merchant, had been Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck. His mother was the daughter of a German planter in South America who married a Portuguese Creole. Mann studied literature in Munich, journeyed to Rome, and at 25 had a stupendous success with...
They were reading Mann once again in Germany. A new novel, a wryly ironic account of a gifted swindler (based on an old sketch), was having a great success. Last March his home town, Lübeck, which had once resented Buddenbrooks, made him an honorary citizen. In May in Stuttgart he opened the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Poet-Dramatist Friedrich von Schiller. Almost in spite of himself, Mann had become a symbol of German unity. His 80th birthday in June was the occasion for celebrations in the Western world, but none so satisfactory...
...Teamster Beck, who built the rambling brick residence on Seattle's exclusive Shore Drive some five years ago, insisted that the union was getting its money's worth. The house has three bedrooms and three baths on one floor, two two-car garages, a separate four-room apartment, a movie room with seats for 50 and two theater-sized projectors, a bathhouse, a heated tile swimming pool covering 1,000 square feet, and an ornamental stream with artificial rock waterfall, illuminated at night. Dave Beck feels that it is just the kind of place a labor leader should...