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Behind closed doors, the meeting droned on for more than three hours. Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster (who was sentenced to a year in prison last month for contempt of Congress), long a Hoffa enemy, wanted to ram through an endorsement of Hoffa. Dave Beck, chins-deep in trouble,* was absent, but the word was around that what little power he has left will be with Hoffa in the hope that President Hoffa would help to make Beck president emeritus (at $50,000 a year...
...problem was best illustrated by the fouled sparkplugs brought along by the four biggest of them: bellowing Dave Beck, newly harassed (he cried) by some absurd vendetta of the income tax people; Minneapolis Teamster Vice President Sidney L. Brennan, convicted of accepting a bribe; Western Conference Chair man Frank Brewster, convicted of contempt of Congress; and, with topmost billing in the news, James Riddle Hoffa, chairman of the Central States Conference of Teamsters, struggling to keep his tail gate from the teeth...
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...