Word: pressers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio's Boss Teamster William Presser, accused of using his union job to exercise a racketeer's control of the coin-vending machine business, ducked most questions by taking the Fifth Amendment. Reminded, after investigation, that the Ohio Conference of Teamsters and Cleveland's Joint Teamster Council 41 both voted to award him $20,000 apiece if he was "severed" from the union, Presser replied: "I'll tell you the truth if you let me get out from under the oath...
...Presser's union paid $1,000 for "public relations and professional services" to Ohio's former (1955-57) Republican Senator George Bender, who is now one of three "antiracketeering" commissioners appointed by Hoffa himself. Bender's answer: he sent the money back...
Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...
...Author Presser, 58, himself a Jew and a professor of history at Amsterdam University, lost his first wife in an extermination camp, lived in hiding in Holland until war's end. What he has written is not a horror novel, despite its horrible theme. It is, rather, a deeply moving story of the terror that lies beyond remorse for the man who fails himself by failing others...
Late last year, with circulation down to a dwindling 53,000, the Theodore Presser Co.'s president, onetime Cellist Arthur A. Hauser, cut Etude's staff from twelve to six. Last week, after prospecting without success for buyers, the foundation announced that Etude would fold with its May-June issue. Highlights of Etude's coda: a cover portrait of Beethoven, an interview with Soprano Renata Tebaldi, a biographical sketch of Composer Igor Stravinsky, and a lengthy obituary on Master Pianist Josef Hofmann...