People: Dec. 18, 1964

"I'll be back," he hallooed from the launch that whisked him off to federal pen on Washington's McNeil Island in 1962. Last week, 41 Ibs. lighter, erstwhile Teamster Boss Dave Beck completed 30 months of his five-year term for faking tax returns and put-putted back to civilization. Obviously he had taken McNeil's Eng. Lit. course, "I have returned," pronounced Beck, who plans to indulge his old fancy for real estate and possibly write his memoirs to vindicate his minority view that he is "not guilty, and I hope that if what I'm saying is...

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