Word: busches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irving J. Levine, tight-lipped president of K & L Beverage Co., told how he and Beck sweet-talked St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch into giving Levine's company the sole distributorship of Budweiser in Seattle, and later in other areas of Beck's domain of Washington and Alaska. Then, said Levine, Dave Beck Jr. and a partner each put up $24,500 for a total of 49% interest in K & L, and Dave Jr. became vice president of the company. Two years later, Mrs. Dave Beck Sr. paid Levine $40,000 for a 40% interest...
John L. Wilson, Anheuser-Busch executive vice president, reluctantly discussed the extent to which his company suffered under Dave Beck's heavy hand for the sake of an assumed guarantee of labor peace implied by Beck control-despite the fact that Anheuser-Busch always retains the power to cancel any of its distributorships without notice. Interoffice memos referred to Dave Jr. as "a spoilt child," to Old Dave as "His Majesty the Wheel." Even so, Old Dave was handy to have around. Wilson admitted that he got Beck to intervene on the brewery's behalf in a union...
...championships (1952, '53, '55), lit up the Coliseum with their brown and yellow uniforms. The Budweiser team drove down from St. Louis in a flashy, $250,000 bus, complete with galley, six bunks, a bathroom with shower, and a private compartment for Budweiser's August Anheuser Busch Jr. In the individual competitions were all bowling's big names and, to TV fans, familiar faces. Chief among them was Lou Campi, Dumont, N.J. contractor whose awkward, wrong-foot bowling style has made him the Lucille Ball of TV bowling, recently won him $6,000 and two Fords...
...tionabob Howard Hughes, 51, $350 million each. No. 5: Texas Oilman Clint ("After the first hundred million, what the heck?") Murchison, 62, $300 million. Tied for No. 6: Pittsburgh's far-visioned Banking Heir Paul Mellon, 49, St. Louis's fun-loving Brewer (Budweiser) August A. ("Gussie") Busch. Jr., 58, and money-pouring Philanthropist John Davison Rockefeller III, 51. In the No. 7 spot and tenth richest: the Coca-Cola Co.'s Director Robert Winthrop Woodruff, 67. What have they in common besides wherewithal? As Writer Parton sees them, few have ever been seriously ill, most have...
Wartime suffering and disillusionment is the theme of an exhibition of World War I paintings, drawings, and prints by German artists now on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum...