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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sq. Ft. A week after graduation ('30), he married Philadelphia Socialite Mary Todhunter Clark (sniffed a Main Line matron: "A young New York man is marrying into the Clark family"). Wedding present from the groom's parents: a year's trip around the world. Armed with letters of introduction to government officials and Standard Oil executives, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller journeyed from Europe to India to the Far East, spent most of their honeymoon discussing world problems with Prime Ministers and potentates...
...decided to erect an integrated system of office buildings, courts and shops. Floor after grey granite floor of what was to become the 15-building Rockefeller Center was rising. Nelson Rockefeller's task: to rent at the depths of the Depression no less than 5,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space. He did it by luring potential tenants with more attractive rents and facilities, sped their entry into Rockefeller Center by buying up their long-term leases in other buildings. Rival landlords fumed, one filed a $10 million damage suit. But tempers cooled and the suit was dropped...
...remote hamlet of Marshall on the Yukon River. The doctor was William Henry Brownlee Jr., 37, making his rounds among the 10,000 people who depend on his hospital at Bethel (pop. 1,000). Radio is the only way he can do it; his territory embraces 50,000 sq. mi.-bigger than New York State...
...grandfather, packed in behind a mule to found the mercantile business which now does $6,000,000 a year in five Goldwater department stores, spawned a robustious breed whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall in love with the landscape and the Indian tribes, snap thousands of color pictures, race down the perilous Colorado River in a flatboat-making friends everywhere...
...either. For $1,500,000 he sold his leasehold, which still has nine years to run, on his 51 West 51st Street restaurant, which he has operated since 1940. Purchaser: William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, which plans to tear down Shor's place, add its 6,000 sq. ft. to an already cleared null building site facing Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd Streets. Likeliest use: a luxury hotel...