[1][2] A native of Pulaski, Tennessee, Keyes Beech got his first job on the Chicago Daily News as a courier.
[3] During World War II, Beech served in the United States Marine Corps in Asia as a combat correspondent.
[3] At the end of World War II, he worked as a Washington correspondent for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
He joined the Chicago Daily News in 1947 as its Tokyo correspondent, the start of 24 years with the newspaper.
[3][1][2] In 1979 Beech was working for the Los Angeles Times, he covered the fifth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Manila, Philippines.