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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clerks wear evening clothes after 6 p.m., coffee is ground just before brewing. Shrewd Businesswoman Sharp (who took over Sharp Ltd. Hotels on the death of her husband in 1941) last week sold the Gotham, the Stanhope and California's Beverly Wilshire to William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp for $25 million. As replacements, Mrs. Sharp plans to put up in Manhattan and Beverly Hills a pair of new luxury hotels, as posh as ever but with modern details, such as refrigerators disguised as antiques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personal File: Aug. 18, 1961 | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...Among them Columnists Stewart Alsop and John Crosby, steamship-banking-airline Tycoon J. Peter Grace Jr., Princeton Dean J. Merrill Knapp, M.I.T. Professor Walt Rostow (now a White House adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boola Moola | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Moving Time. Alleghany is a rich prize. Besides its I.D.S. stock, Alleghany owns 50,000 shares of Transamerica Corp., a West Coast insurance holding company, and $20 million of notes in Bill Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp real estate company. But its biggest holdings are in railroads: it controls the New York Central, owns more than 50% of the class B stock of the Missouri-Pacific, and holds, in conjunction with the Central, 20% of the Baltimore & Ohio's common stock. In all, Alleghany controls companies with assets of about $6.7 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Victory for Texas | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

Other Crimson entrants will be Al Al-bright, Larry Repsher, Don Kirkland, Gus Schumacher, Ed Hamlin, and Bob Knapp...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Mullin Faces Paranya in IC4A: Varsity to Figure in Team Race | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Another plan that should be under way soon is a blue-sky dream of William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.-made practical by cheap power from Bonneville Dam and Stratmat's smelting process-to retrieve iron, copper and zinc from waste copper slag cast off by copper companies. A Webb & Knapp subsidiary, in which Stratmat is to have a minority interest, plans to build a mill in Montana and buy slag from Anaconda Co. at 25? a ton. The slag heap contains iron, copper and zinc ores worth an estimated $1.4 billion. Zeckendorf even hopes to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: New Era for Steel? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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