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...LEROY BEESON Spokane...
More meaty is the 40-minute Hello Out There, adapted from William Saroyan's play and composed by a newcomer, Jack Beeson, 32, a student of the late Bela Bartok. Trapped in a Texas county jail sits an easygoing gambler falsely charged with rape, and in danger of being lynched. Before he meets his end, he talks of love and freedom to the jail's cleaning girl and of bitterer truths to the hotheaded husband of the woman he supposedly wronged. The music too often slips out of focus, but at its best contains some genuinely affecting melody...
...narrow margin of three votes (45-42), the Senate last week confirmed bumbling Albert C. Beeson as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Leading the Democratic attack, Alabama's Lister Hill charged that Beeson had "misled and deceived" the Senate Labor Committee in his stumbling, backtracking testimony (TIME, Feb. 15). "Mr. Beeson knowingly and intentionally made no fewer than five positive statements which have proved to be as false as the statements of Ananias," roared West Virginia's Matt Neely. In pleading for Beeson's confirmation, New York's Republican Irving Ives...
...Republican appointee to the National Labor Relations Board, Beeson came to Washington with a long and respected record as a company representative in labor-management relations. But with the very first question asked him in committee hearings, Beeson showed that his wisdom was no burden on his tongue. Yes, said Beeson, he had once lectured on economics at Rutgers. That answer would have sufficed, but Beeson rambled on: "I was frankly there to try to explain the American enterprise system from the businessman's viewpoint." Asked the C.I.O.'s James Carey, a later witness: Would not Beeson also...
Then it was learned that 1) Beeson was merely taking leave of absence as industrial-relations director of the Food Machinery and Chemical Corp. and expected to return there after one year on the NLRB, and 2) he stood to get a pension from the company. Since this raised an obvious conflict-of-interests issue (Beeson was still technically in the employ of a company that could be affected by his NLRB votes), further committee hearings were called. When he got up to play out his Rome-burning scenario, Beeson promised to resign outright from the company and to renounce...