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...round, paneled office atop the Manhattan headquarters of Webb & Knapp, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has three telephones, a bronze Matisse nude, but no windows. The reason, says the room's designer, is that for a showman like Bill Zeckendorf "it would be ridiculous to create any environment for him other than one consisting exclusively of himself...
WILLIAM Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, the Manhattan real-estate company which bought Charlie Chaplin's Hollywood lot for $650,000, will lease the studio to television film producers, build a big new shopping center on the vacant part of the land...
WILLIAM Zeckendorf, boss of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp real-state and investment firm, is planning a huge, new project: a 22-story, $100 million building to cover two blocks on New York City's West Side as a showcase for American merchandise. The building, rising above the Pennsylvania Railroad's underground tracks, would have more floor space (6,000,000 to 7,000,000 sq. ft.) than any other building in the world, and have a heliport on the roof...
...that America's Cup summer, doing some crewing on Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, another of the big J Class boats, which raced against Ranger for the honor of defending the cup. In the Ranger's afterguard, i.e., board of strategy, was Long Island Sailor Arthur Knapp Jr., one of Corny's ablest continuing rivals for local and national sailing honors...
...study, conducted by Robert H. Knapp '42 and Joseph J. Greenbaum, psychology professors at Wesleyan University, listed M.I.T. as 17th, Amherst as 28th, and Williams as 29th...