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...impressive performance. Samoan slap dancing creates the syncopated rhythm of tap dancing but with the use of one's hands and body instead of one's feet and the floor. It also has the energy and power of stepping. When asked if it was painful to do, Eric Beven, one of the Samoan slap dancers, replied, "Well, I got some bruises. You get so energized doing it. It feels great when you're done...

Author: By Breeze K. Giannasio, | Title: A FIRST-HAND REPORT FROM THE MIT LUAU | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Ruth's home run was his famed "called shot" into the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field. Lavagetto's two-out ninth-inning double ruined Pitcher Bill Beven's no-hitter and gave the Dodgers a 3-2 victory over the Yankees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tomorrow, Golf | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...competition almost wrecked Central. It suspended dividends, and its stock, which had once hit $184, fell to $4.75. Control of the entire $700,000,000 system could have been bought for only $3,300,000. By trimming costs to the bone, President Lawrence Downs and his successor, John L. Beven, managed to pull the road through, though it was touch & go. One time, the papers were even drawn up to put it into bankruptcy. World War II sent the road highballing again, and Beven began using earnings to trim the $368 million debt and buy new equipment. When Beven died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Mid-America's Main Line | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Those speaking tonight, in order of their appearance, are: James J. Patiee, Jr. '41, Allan B. Ecker '41, Howard S. Nemeroy '41, John W. Sever '40, John B. Fisher '41, Robert A. Brooks '40, Elliot L. Richardson '41, Stanley O. Beven '41, Jonas N. Muller '40, and Richard B. Wolf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEN JUNIORS, SENIORS SEEK BOYLSTON PRIZES | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

...John Beven expected to carry a trainload of blackstrap from New Orleans to Commercial Solvents' plant at Peoria, Ill, every ten days or so this year, for some $200,000. But the ultimate possibilities of the precedent are much bigger. If I. C. C. authorizes a rate that gets blackstrap out of barges, it may also fix similar rates for iron ore, lumber, coal, sugar, cottonseed oil - and a rate that keeps oil out of pipelines. At I. C. C. hearing Shell Oil Co., Inc. (subsidiary of Shell Union Oil Corp. with millions of dollars invested in pipelines) argued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trainload Lots | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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