Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meany and his council took pains to prove that they were after Beck and not his union, the nation's biggest. One day later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that...
Public & Private. The project was the idea of Czech-born Conductor Franz Allers. 51, a maestro of melting musical-comedy scores (Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon). Conductor Allers yearned for meatier material, and in 1947 he persuaded a bunch of the boys from the Brigadoon pit to get together in off-hours to try their hand at a little Debussy, Mozart and Beethoven. When Allers took over the baton in Fair Lady, some of the singers asked him to continue his out-of-hours musicmaking. Result: the Allers opera workshop, which in short order sang, without sets or costumes, Mozart...
History 162, his course on "The Westward Movement," will not be given next year. The course, popularly known as "Wagon Wheels," follows the frontier and its influence on Americans...
Cambridge police arrived to assist the University police in removing the girls, who suddenly became violent. When finally subdued they were brought out to a waiting wagon, one with hands cuffed behind her back the other trussed in a Common Room carpet. Their faces were bloody from the struggle...
...Astoria hotel last week. The star: Fiat's tiny bug-shaped Model 600 Standard, which is priced in the U.S. at $1,298. Fiat's other models range from a two-seater 90-m.p.h. sports convertible (U.S. price: $2,498) to a six-seater combination truck-station-wagon ($2,069). The company's U.S. sales goal is 30,000 in 1957 v. about 125 that trickled in last year. Fiat's Manhattan distributor claims to have 5,000 orders already...