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...Home. From the windows in his office of the Teamsters' tan brick Seattle headquarters, Beck can point out across Taylor Avenue to five lots that he owns. Around the corner on Denny Way is the service station he co-owned with the Teamsters' Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster (who recently sold his share, but not until after the station had sold the Teamsters at least $165,000 worth of service from 1950 to 1955). Near by are the two parking lots Beck bought for $28,000 and sold to the Teamsters for $135,000. Looming over the entire...
...Frank Brewster wanted to be more than a goon. He learned that the well-dressed man does not wear purple shirts and scarlet neckties. He prettied up his language to the point where it would no longer shock a waterfront madam, and he worked for an air of well-dressed urbanity. He became a tab-grabbing customer at Vic Rosellini's in Seattle and Del Vecchio's in San Francisco. His third wife (he has been divorced by all three) had a certain standing in San Francisco society. He was admitted to Seattle's semi-stylish Washington...
...Ignore." In 1953 Dave Beck was named president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Frank Brewster took his place at the head of the Western Conference. His duties kept him traveling, and so did his horses; he therefore sold his Seattle home and began living in hotel rooms. Under Brewster, the West Coast Teamsters have given heavily to charity, sponsored a classical-music program on television, with Seattle Symphony Conductor Milton Katims presiding...
...Frank Brewster's past remained an embarrassment. When, as befits an ambitious labor statesman, a biography was being written about President Dave Beck, the authors had a problem: how to deal with the part Brewster had played in Beck's life. They suggested to Beck that Brewster could be handled in one of three ways: 1) he could be played up as a picket-line hero, 2) he could be treated as a roughneck problem child, 3) he could be ignored. Beck sat thinking for a long while, finally moved his soft hands across the table and made...
...last week, nearly everyone in organized labor was wishing that Frank Brewster could be that easily ignored...