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Word: becks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charges of "plotting to regain power" in West Germany. Among those newly arrested are four of the known leaders of the Freikorps Deutschland, a semimilitary, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic organization that was formed in 1951. The jailed leaders: Hermann Lamp, an unreconstructed ex-SS sergeant; Helmuth Beck-Broichsitter, onetime major in the Grossdeutschland Division, who is also the chairman of a strutting veterans' organization called Bruderschaft; Alfred Frauenfeld, pre-Anschluss Nazi leader in Vienna; Eberhard Hawranke, ex-Brownshirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ragtag Reminders | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Barely behind Seattle's Johnny O'Brien (26.95) and Pennsylvania's Ernie Beck (26.92). Towering "Bevo" Francis of tiny Rio Grande College (50.4 points a game) leads basketball's minor leagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Taskmaster & Pupil | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Jones refused. The rebels formed the new agency of Scheideler, Beck & Werner, Inc., and grabbed off some of Jones's juiciest accounts (notably the $3,000,000-a-year Sweetheart Soap account). Charging a "conspiracy" to put him out of business, Jones filed a $2.000,000 damage suit last fall. It was the first time anyone had legally questioned a traditional Ad Alley practice; new agencies are constantly being formed by account executives who walk out of their old agencies with their pet accounts in their pockets. During the 20-day trial, Jones himself cheerfully testified that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Jones Boys | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Other noteworthy new releases: Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Magnificat (Vienna State Opera Orchestra) ; Akademie Choir and soloists conducted by Felix Prohaska; Bach Guild, 2 LPs); Conrad Beck: Viola Concerto (Walter Kagi; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jean Meylan; London); Beethoven: "Kreutzer" Sonata (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Benno Moïséiwitsch, piano; Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Oct. 27, 1952 | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...worried-looking man with a Hitler haircut marched into the prosecutor's office in the German city of Lübeck a fortnight ago, and told a story that made the cops gasp. His name: Lothar Malskat, 39, artist by trade, and one of the painters who restored the bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bargain-Basement Masters? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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