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...Heaven. Over the years, the Teamsters' Boss Beck has labored mightily to achieve a standing of eminent respectability. Unlike his goon-squad lieutenants, he does not smoke, drink, play cards, shoot pool, follow the horses or bestow nylons indiscreetly. Beck and his Teamsters spend lavishly for civic and political purposes, e.g., a cool $1,000,000 pledged to the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles, and (according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor...
...earth once again" by returning in 1940 to the vibrant countryside of southwest France. Part of his latest harvest: his superb pastoral illustrations for Virgil's Eclogues (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 6, 1955). Today, at 81, the holder of nearly every award the art world has to bestow, Villon can sum up the goal he has largely achieved: "to express the perfume, the soul of things of which science only catalogues and explains the outward appearance...
...Michael Stewart, 20, whose father is president of a steam turbine company in Trenton, N.J., played end on Princeton's football team, won the John Prentiss Poe Memorial cup, the highest honor Princeton can bestow on a varsity football player. An honor student in philosophy, he was vice president of his class, president of his eating club, Cap and Gown, president of the Westminster Foundation, Presbyterian religious meeting group...
...degrees, raised the teacher's average yearly salary from $1,016 to $4,006, upped the value of his plant from $3,800,000 to $17,600,000. In 1953 he was elected president of the American Association of School Administrators, the top honor U.S. public schoolmen can bestow. But aside from these accomplishments, Derthick has another qualification for the commissionership: his middle-road record on the issue of integration...
Officially, Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender begins his campaign for reelection this week, after Dwight Eisenhower's flight to Cleveland to bestow wholehearted presidential blessings. Officially, Ohio's Democratic Governor Frank Lausche begins his campaign against Bender next week, when he will "go out through the back-country roads and the off-beaten tracks, making up my itinerary as I go along...