Word: brewster
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Last January "Handsome Frank" Brewster, longtime king of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' fearsome West Coast goon squads, refused to answer the questions of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee on the grounds that it was exceeding its authority. Cited for contempt of Congress, the Teamsters' Vice President Brewster, goon companion of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, claimed that he had purged himself by later appearing before the special McClellan committee and telling how he had used Teamsters' money to finance, among other things, his racing stables. Despite this plea, made before a federal judge in Washington, Handsome Frank...
...story about the Santa Fe Opera Association [July 15] contained yet another instance of man's inhumanity to librettists. One might assume that The Tower is an opéra sans paroles. Could there be no mention of no-longer-so-young (32) U.S. Comic Poet Townsend T. Brewster, who wrote the text...
TOWNSEND T. BREWSTER...
Convicted last week on 31 counts of contempt of Congress: horse-loving, track-following, fast-living Frank Brewster, boss of the eleven-state Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Brewster refused to answer questions put to him last January by the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee because, said his lawyers, the committee was exceeding its authority. Moreover, they argued, he had purged himself by answering later before the labor-investigating McClellan committee. Federal District Judge John J. Sirica disagreed on both points. Maximum possible sentence on each of the 31 contempt counts: one year in jail...
...wholly-right. The actual negotiations were not between Beck and the symphony, but between Beck's press agents and the radio station. But the symphony board formally approved the arrangement, and Conductor Katims submitted to publicity pictures with Dave Beck's off-key concertmaster, Frank Brewster...