Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Hawkins came up from last place in the finals of the 220-yard butterfly at the National A. A. U. swimming meet at Yale on April 2, shot by four of the men ahead of him, but could not overtake Eulalio Rios, Pan American Games champion, who set a world record to win. One of the men Hawkins passed was Phil Drake of North Carolina, who had beaten the Crimson junior over the 200-yard distance...
Almost alone among big U.S. corporations, Montgomery Ward fought off unions with unrelenting vigor. But when Louis Wolfson launched his attempt to take over the company, James R. Hoffa, rough, tough vice president of Dave Beck's A.F.L. Teamsters' Union, saw an opportunity to tighten the screws on aging Ward President Sewell Avery, who is desperately trying to hold onto control...
Last week in Chicago, Sewell Avery capitulated. As Hoffa looked on, Avery and Teamster President Dave Beck signed the first companywide union contract in Ward's history. When the bitter moment arrived, Sewell Avery, who once forced Franklin Roosevelt to order him carried out of his own office rather than deal with a union, acted as though it was not so hard to take after all. As photographers swarmed into his office, Avery playfully rubbed Beck's bald head, looked pleased as Punch when the union leader said: "You've got more hair than I have...
Other new pop records: Brubeck Time (Columbia LP). The Dave Brubeck Quartet in a rare, formal studio recording. Saxophonist Paul Desmond is in top form in the tender Audrey, and Pianist Brubeck delivers an angry, driving solo in Stomping for Mili,* while that fine rhythm section sizzles in the background...
...Dave Hawkins, defending National A.A.U. champion in the 100-yard butterfly, will attempt to retain his crown over the new longer 220-yard distance--and against the man who beat him last weekend--at New Haven tomorrow...