Word: tough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since he got around aging Dan Tobin and became the real ruler of the Teamsters Union, Seattle's tough, pale-eyed Dave Beck has been remolding the A.F.L.'s biggest labor group to suit his fancy. Last week in Manhattan, Beck announced what he proposed to do with his juggernaut when he gets it well-streamlined. He was going to start a coast-to-coast organizing roundup that would make other labor-recruiting drives look like ballet tryouts...
...chance to practice," he says. "They have to study, you know, and many of them will go into their events tomorrow evening fresh from exams taken during the day." This, plus the fact that the Crimson entries will be facing the cream of collegiate track athletics should mean a tough night ahead for the runners...
Born. To Lauren Bacall, 24, leggy cinemactress (To Have and Have Not, Key Largo), and Humphrey Bogart, 48, cinema tough-guy (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Key Largo): their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephen Humphrey. Weight...
...Abraham Lincoln carried a Waltham), it often ran erratically, and almost failed after World War I. Boston's tough Frederic C. Dumaine, an old hand at finding gold in depleted tills,* bought control and resurrected Waltham. To make Waltham pay off, he dropped the designing department, and grudged every nickel spent on advertising, thus let the name be drowned out by younger companies. After cashing in on war contracts, Dumaine sold out in 1944 to Ira Guilden, ex-vice president of the Bulova Watch Co. and former brother-in-law of Watchmaker Arde Bulova...
...temptress without even trying, has never shown so strikingly that she can be an actress as well. But, in a picture crowded with skilled performances-by Kirk Douglas, Miss Sothern, and Thelma Ritter as an aggressively democratic maid-of-all-work-Paul Douglas' spaniel-faced portrait of a tough guy stands by itself...