Word: becks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skin Of Our Teeth, as Stephen Nightingale directs it at Lowell House, carries off Wilder's con game with only a few pratfalls. The play is a loosely conceived Everyman telling the never-ending story of Mr. George Antrobus (Stuart Beck), his wife (Mary Belle Felten-stein), and two kids (John Sansone and Jody Adams). Wilder places this New Jersey family in the Ice Age, the flood, and the end of World War II (which wasn't over in 1942), revelling in anachronism and exploded convention...
Most of the alumni don't feel overly rah-rah about Tacoma's McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary; but for ex-Teamsters Boss Dave Beck, 72, the place was a veritable Vic Tanny's West. Released 22 months ago, after serving half of a five-year stretch for income tax evasion, Beck boasts that "I came out in better shape than I went in." Since the kind of Gemiitlichkeit that goes with his $50,-000-a-year Teamsters pension was out, he picked up "the exercise habit" in the hoosegow, made it a point...
...didn't quite do that, but at least she had a little money. Her name was Lenore Beck, and her mother had died six months before, leaving an estate of $116,319.66. Soon after the wedding, the young couple took off for New York, where David changed his name to Merrick: a cross between Margulois and Garrick, the name of the most famous 18th century English actor. He never looked back. At 54, Merrick still hates his home town so violently that when he flies west he refuses to fly TWA because he thinks TWA planes pass over St. Louis...
...strawberries, and strawberries the actor got on opening night; but when the reviews turned up terrible, Merrick instantly reduced him to radishes. Barbra Streisand, who appeared in Merrick's / Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1962, is still squawking because David bought her shoes by A. S. Beck instead of Capezio. Carol Channing reports that one night when she was slipping out of the Hello, Dolly! stage door in a full show costume that included an expensive pair of dancing shoes that Merrick had bought for her, he demanded indignantly where she was going. "To do a benefit...
...Beck was a perfect choice for Mrs. Irving. He played her, properly, as a lady Bilko. Oddly enough, he wasn't a knock out. I still can't figure...