Word: minnes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Delbert Eugene Webb, 75, Phoenix-based real-estate baron; of lung cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Webb was a promising semipro baseball pitcher before illness made him give up the 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...
Once a hard-charging guard for the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., Robert D. Lund voices a business philosophy that is pure Vince Lombardi. "The way to win," he says, "is to get out in front and improve your position. When you're green you're growing, but when you're ripe you're next to rotten." His hard sell seemed appropriate enough at General Motors' Chevrolet division, where as general sales manager he set a record of 3 million vehicles sold in 1971, but somewhat out of place at the Cadillac...
Rochester, Minn...
White Bear Lake, Minn...
Died. Agnes Moorehead, 67, consummate character actress; in Rochester, Minn. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Moorehead worked on the New York stage, then turned to radio, where she re-created the voices of notable women for the March of Time. A co-founder with Orson Welles of the Mercury Theater, she helped him perpetrate the 1938 "invasion from Mars" radio broadcast and in 1941 landed the first of her hundred or so screen roles in Citizen Kane (as Kane's mother). An Oscar nominee for five films including Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (she never won), she was best...