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Aged (85), ailing Joseph Palmer Knapp and his Publication Corp. (Alco-Gravure, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.) control This Week. But on editorial affairs, says Nichols, "I have to please 24 bosses"-the editors of the subscribing newspapers (which pay $10 to $15 per 1,000 copies, depending on the size of the supplement, and share its profits, around $3 per 1,000 circulation in 1948). To please them, he shuns anything controversial...
...Angeles Daily News. As a regional monthly it grew from a circulation of 913 to 53,000, but was losing $15,000 an issue, having set its contract ad rates too low. Bob Smith signed up two new angels: Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., run by William Zeckendorf (TIME...
...Clubs will alternate for most of the program and then get together to sing "Old Nassau," "Fair Harvard" and an American folk song. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard singers, sharing the podium with Princetonian J. Merrill Knapp...
After four months of furious effort, the fast-moving real-estate firm of Webb & Knapp Inc. had control of a rundown, 30-acre, eight-block area on the East Side (41st to 49th Streets, First Avenue to the East River). Webb & Knapp promptly announced plans to replace the run-down stables, warehouses, slaughterhouses and tenements with the biggest, costliest city-within-a-city ever built. Cost: $150,000,000. Features: a 57-story office building, three 30-story apartments, a 6,000-capacity convention hall, a yacht landing, a helicopter field, a 5,000,000,000-sq.-ft. parking platform...
Lightning on a Lake. Webb & Knapp had not given promise of such a mickle feat in its earlier days. Operated for years by Ivy League sprouts (Groton's and Harvard's Elliot Cross, St. Paul's and Yale's John Hurst Purnell Gould, St. Mark's Henry Sears), the 24-year-old business was strong in contacts, weak on aggressiveness, barely managed to break even on servicing its exclusive clientele...