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...returned to Seattle to become recording secretary of the Teamsters' Local 174 in 1921. His salary: $2 a month. During those early years, he was senior to and far overshadowed a turnip-shaped young Seattle Teamster named Dave Beck. "Frank had the interests of the working stiff at heart," recalls a Teamster veteran. "He'd put his neck on the line any time to sign up a new member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention in Seattle, it was Speechmaker Beck who caught the favor...
...trip will give varsity coach Jack Barnaby an opportunity to watch his players in action against some stiff competition, and give the players a chance to sharpen up their games for the season's opener April 17 against M.I.T...
...sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn't win a hamburger with that kind of score. The younger players are pressing us, and we're getting stiff in the joints. But we're not through...
...knows that for this kind of work a man needs access to enemy records. Draper himself-an old New Masses, Daily Worker and Tassman who broke with the Reds at the beginning of World War II-had this knowledge of the enemy built in. Yet he has preserved a stiff objectivity-rare among ex-leftists -which has kept him on the cold course plotted by the Fund for the Republic, which sponsored his study. The book is all the more welcome because, as Draper understates it, "Communists themselves cannot write their own history...
During his first year at Phillips Exeter Academy, there were times when Nathaniel LaMar of Atlanta, Ga. thought he would never make it. The son of a widowed schoolteacher, he had gone to a Negro elementary school that left him unprepared for the stiff competition at Exeter. Had it not been for an organization called the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, he would never have bothered to apply for Exeter at all. But young LaMar gradually found his bearings. Eventually he i) was elected senior class poet at Exeter, 2) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard...