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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With $33 million in loans from banks and insurance companies, the project has already paid off handsomely for Zeckendorf. In 1950 his realty firm, Webb & Knapp, put up $1,500,000 to buy a 60% interest in Roosevelt Field Inc., paying an average $9 a share. By last year the shares hit $45 on the American Stock Exchange and were split...
...record sales of Jubilee's star, Clyde Julian ("Red") Foley, have topped 2½ million. Foley and two other Springfield hillbillies (Webb Pierce and Eddy Arnold) sell close to half the country-music records marketed in the U.S. Six years ago Pierce was selling clothes in Sears, Roebuck; now he is making something close to $200,000 a year. Foley can command up to $1,500 a night, but does only four or five dates a month because he "doesn't want to take all that money to the graveyard.'' Jubilee has always been...
...Clifton Webb sheds every trace of his Mr. Belvedere mannerisms to give a terse performance as Montagu, the intelligence officer who has more trouble selling his own high command than he does in hoodwinking the Germans. His toughest job is finding a proper body: that of a man of military age who has just died of pneumonia-so there will be enough fluid in the lungs to fool a Spanish prosector into believing the man has drowned. So long as the film remains a documentary, its detail is fascinating, whether it is the slow building of a personality and past...
Married. Guri Lie, 26, blonde daughter of first U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie; and William Zeckendorf III, 26, son of Real-Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf and a vice president of his father's Manhattan real-estate firm, Webb & Knapp; in Winchester...
Real-Estate Promoter William Zeckendorf, whose plans shoot out as fast and colorfully as flaming gobbets from a Roman candle, moved into Dallas last week and popped an idea that had even Texans agape. He announced that his Manhattan realty firm of Webb & Knapp and a group of well-heeled oilmen are in the process of acquiring 5,000 acres of choice land between Dallas and Fort Worth for $10 million. Their plan: to turn the land into the world's biggest "industrial park," a roaring "prairie boom town" where 100,000 people would work in a $300 million...