National Affairs: FROM GOON TO GENT

The Teamsters' Frank Brewster

THE witness before the McClellan committee wore monogrammed silk shirts and tailor-made suits that followed more after George Raft than Brooks Brothers. As he gestured with his carefully manicured hands, he flashed gold cuff links. His handsome face was bronzed by many a day spent under the sun at Santa Anita, Tanforan and Bay Meadows. Only his slightly cauliflowered left ear betrayed the past of Frank William Brewster, 60, West Coast boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as a brick-fisted mug. The story of the first phase of the McClellan committee's investigation is the story of how...

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