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...Boss Dave Beck is proud to point out that he once was a Seattle laundry driver. By last week. as Beck made his third appearance before the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering. so much of his dirty laundry had been washed in public that the Teamsters were ready to wring him out of office. Because there is no clear-cut constitutional procedure for impeaching him now, the reformers looked toward September when the International Teamsters open a convention and hold an election in Miami Beach, Fla. First to volunteer to take a crack at Beck was an old pal, Fourth...
...hopes and aims, no matter how high-minded, into workable and acceptable form, they must first be wrung out in terms of politics. This was the process, with all of its charges and countercharges, conspiracies and compromises, that was at work last week as the U.S. attempted to wring out a workable policy for the Middle East. It was at work as U.S., Canadian and Indian delegates huddled and haggled on a new approach to Israel v. the Arabs in the gleaming corridors of the United Nations; it was at work as Democratic Senators contested the Eisenhower doctrine and tried...
...little tyrant worked his magic with them. As he hoarsely, ardently sang along with the orchestra, or exhorted, bullied and implored, he could make performers redden with shame, burn with rage, or soften with sympathy for him. And with uncanny and unerring instinct, he knew which would wring a surpassing performance from each of them. Over the years, he played Svengali to hundreds of Trilbys. After listening to a recording of her singing in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast performance of Otello, Soprano Herva Nelli (Desdemona) exclaimed...
...broke a foot. Somehow he also managed to develop a superb sense of timing. He learned how to break from the gate a stride on top, how to rate his horse when he was running in front. If he looked awkward in the saddle his knowing hands could still wring that extra effort out of his mount, that marginal shading of speed that wins horse races...
Solve the Problem. Most of McCleery's shows have an "upbeat ending." "The afternoon is no time to wring people's hearts out," he explains. "If I were doing Romeo and Juliet, I would show their ghosts floating gently up to heaven, hand in hand. Even with a four-handkerchief show, the ending must come out satisfactorily. If we can't solve a problem, we don't pose...