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...BOSTON REALTOR ABRAHAM M. SONNABEND, 58, admits to a fortune of "a few million" made by buying up properties cheap and improving them for resale. Sonnabend has won control (chairman of the board) of Botany Mills, is president of the Childs restaurant chain, now runs a string of seven hotels, including Manhattan's Plaza and Ritz Tower. In 1950 Sonnabend and his associates bought Cleveland's $100 million Van Sweringen property for a total of $35 million, of which they had to put up only...
William Zeckendorf, whose deals have probably made him the No. 1 U.S. realtor, last week clinched his biggest deal yet. In Manhattan, President Arthur F. Douglas of the Statler Hotels announced that the board of directors had accepted an $80 million offer to sell out to Zeck-endorf's Webb & Knapp...
...When Realtor Charles E. Slusser was mayor of Akron (1944-53), he led a fight to replace city slums with public housing and met with stiff resistance from some of his fellow real-estate men who opposed Government housing as interference with private business. This week Republican Slusser made a speech before the Akron Real Estate Board as Eisenhower Administration spokesman and its Public Housing Commissioner...
Freedom & Responsibility. The son of a Chicago realtor, Smith joined the progressive movement early. After five years at the Louis Nettelhorst Public School ("We did everything by the numbers-opening desks, closing desks, picking up pencils"), he was enrolled with two of his brothers as one of the first pupils in Colonel Parker's experimental Chicago Institute. There Parker preached a doctrine of "freedom with a balancing responsibility" and of learning from actual materials as well as from books. In spite of the fact that Smith went on to the orthodox Hill School of Pottstown...
...Fort Dearborn plan (named after the early American fort on the city's site) was largely the work of Architect Nathaniel A. Owings, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Realtor Arthur Rubloff, developer of the sprawling Evergreen Park shopping center on Chicago's southwest side and the postwar "magnificent mile" on the city's famed Michigan Avenue...