Word: dan
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...game at 27. In 1929 he started his own construction company with one cement mixer and a few dozen wheelbarrows and tools, ultimately parlayed it into the Del E. Webb Corp., a $100 million empire of hotels, offices, planned retirement communities and other developments. With the late Dan Topping, Webb owned the New York Yankees during their postwar years of glory...
Formidable Edge. Fan mail for the boyish, neatly polished Brokaw is running at about the same volume, with so far not one word of disfavor. Because it has only been a year since he was plucked from Los Angeles' KNBC to compete with CBS's Dan Rather, Brokaw's success surprised network executives. "Many of us did not realize that he had such poise, wit and delightful humor," burbles Schulberg. Among those who matter-NBC Board Chairman Julian Goodman, President Herbert Schlosser, News President Richard Wald-Brokaw is also thought to have "more magnetism and impact" (read...
...young physician in charge of a Jersey City drug-rehabilitation center in the late 1960s when he joined the Community Action Council, a local group of disgruntled citizens. When then Mayor Thomas Whelan was packed off to prison for extortion and conspiracy in 1971, Democrat Jor dan won a special election to become the youngest mayor in Jersey City history and end the corrupt, malodorous 57-year dynasty of Bosses Frank Hague and John V. Kenny. Since taking office, he has announced plans for a $2 billion renovation of the city's waterfront and for new housing in older...
...Father Kenneth Baker, 44, is an energetically conservative Jesuit educator who has edited the monthly Homiletic and Pastoral Review (circ. 17,000) since 1971. Like Francis, Baker won his editorial slot through the good offices of fellow Jesuit Dan Lyons, who found backers to buy the ailing magazine. Baker has kept the Homiletic open to a broader range of viewpoints than the Register. But Baker too believes that the bishops have largely abandoned their magisterium-their teaching office...
...captains are: Dan Williams of Milton, baseball; Blair Brooks of Weston, heavyweight crew; Todd Howard of Clarence, N.Y., lightweight crew; Steve McConnell of Winchester and Tom Yellin of Memphis, Tenn., golf; Jim Quinn and Leroy Thompson of Baltimore, Md., lacrosse; John Ingard of Lincoln, tennis; and Blayne Heckel of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Steve Niemi of Pullman, Wash., track and field...