Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN NBC decided to add medical news to Dave Garroway's morning television show Today, it discovered that TIME was a ready source of authentic material. For a report on dysautonomia, a little known affliction, a symptom of which is weeping without tears, NBC used Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant's story (TIME, June 7, 1954) for script background. Later Today planned to review the treatment of mental ills with new drugs and learned the authoritative work was a booklet by Cant, based on the story Pills for the Mind (TIME, March...
Last week, bending before Meany's wrath, Seattle's Dave Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, directed Hoffa to take no further action on the I.L.A. alliance until it had been discussed by the teamsters' executive board in Honolulu this month...
...demonstrated that his prime interest is not a clean waterfront but a teamster-dominated waterfront. It was characteristic of the methods that have made Jimmy Hoffa, 43, one of the hottest new stars in labor's firmament and the man most likely to succeed the aging (61) Dave Beck as boss of the 1,400,000-man I.B.T...
Expanding Sphere. In 1952, in return for helping Dave Beck supplant the late Dan Tobin as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Hoffa was made an I.B.T. vice president. Since then Beck has watched with apparent helplessness while Hoffa expanded his sphere of influence. Not long ago, in a bid to get enough votes to control the teamsters' New York Joint Council, Hoffa quietly procured charters for seven small New York locals, dominated by convicted Extortionist Johnny Dio. Nor does Hoffa's ambition stop with control of the I.B.T. as it now stands. Ultimately, as his negotiations...
North Carolina State gained one of its firsts in the 220 yard butterfly when Dick Fadgen set a new meet record in 2:13.2. Dave Hawkins, who set the previous record last year, started out too fast and faded to finish second...