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When Teamsters' President Dave Beck appeared before Senate investigators five years ago. the nation thought it saw a man being destroyed. He was accused of stealing $370.000 from the members of his International Brotherhood of Teamsters, of betraying his friends and of robbing a friend's widow. Robert F. Kennedy, then the Senate committee's chief counsel, wrote an early epitaph: "He was dead...
...that was needed was someone to push him over and make him lie down as dead men should." But Beck did not lie down. In the years since the Senate hearings, he has spent just one night behind bars, meanwhile dwelling on the $160,000 estate he built with Teamster money. Ironically, of all the charges of wholesale corruption brought against him, he stands convicted of two of the most trivial-pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a Teamster-owned Cadillac, and allowing false information to appear on tax statements he neither saw nor signed...
...United Family, last on the agenda at Agassiz, is a wonderful play by France's finest poet, Jacques Prevert. It has a subtlety underneath its blatant satire, and John Beck, who directed it for horselaughs, wasn't fully successful. But his staging was fast and broad, and he deployed eight expressive actors, including Sam Abbott, Miss Prutting, Paul Schmidt, Fran Blakeslee and the ubiquitous Mills...
...Beck and Maxwell gave an audience that wanted to laugh ample opportunity. Their French trio was well-chosen, well-acted, and well, delightful...
...Marrener is at least as interesting as Susan Hayward. Why change Thelma Ford to Shirley Booth, Jeanette Morrison to Janet Leigh, Patrick Barry to Barry Sullivan, Edward Flanagan to Dennis O'Keefe, Kim Reid to Kim Stanley, Virginia McMath to Ginger Rogers, Julie Wells to Julie Andrews, Helen Beck to Sally Rand, John Hamilton to Sterling Hayden, Diane Belmont to Lucille Ball, Phyllis Isley to Jennifer Jones...