Word: webb
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...members pitched in themselves to build a one-story, cinder-block clubhouse and a breakwater that juts into Lake Michigan. The members pay dues of only $36.50 a year and mostly operate small powerboats, but a few have 40-ft. yachts. "We're self-contained," explains Charles Webb, 29, a trailer mechanic. "We don't have to worry about the next...
...Angeles meeting with the suspicious, secretive industrialist Howard Hughes. Through Skouras, Hughes has leaked his intention of selling his enormous holdings to devote the proceeds to medical research. Rockefeller, philanthropist and president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Zeckendorf at that time, the extraordinarily successful head of the Webb & Knapp real estate empire, have come out from New York...
Major in Real Estate. Immodesty becomes few men as well as it does Zeckendorf. Apart from the tangle of overextensions and bad luck that resulted in the collapse of Webb & Knapp in 1965, Zeckendorf seems to have little to be modest about. The son of a Long Island shoe manufacturer, he dropped out of high school, but entered college after attending a cram school and completing 16 regents' exams in one week. In 1925, after three years of parties and football, he dropped college to major in real estate...
...contemporary London will do. Sunning himself in a graveyard one afternoon, Sloane is taken in-in every sense-by Kath (Beryl Reid). She is a bloated harpy who will never need silicone or estrogen. Enter two gentlemen who provide complications and multiply laughter. Kath's father Dadda (Alan Webb) is a senescent buzzard; her brother Ed (Harry Andrews) is a lantern-jawed caricature of muscle-bound Christianity...
...current group is a near-symphonic fusion of rock and the toe-tapping, old-gold sound that was the trademark of his earlier bands. Mixing updated versions of old Herman specialities with ear-blowing arrangements of such contemporary tunes as the Doors' Light My Fire and Jim Webb's Mac Arthur Park, the latest Herd has a rare ability to bridge pop music's generation gap. It is equally welcome at the hip Fillmore West and Manhattan's touristy Copacabana, where Woody and Songstress Dionne Warwick have just begun a joint two-week engagement...