Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Kelly's Blues (Warner), the second movie that Jack Webb-the big gun on TV's Dragnet-has directed and starred in, is pretty much the same old dum-de-dum-dumfounding stuff, but set in ragtime. Webb has cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper...
...Star Jack Webb built an entire Dragnet around Irish coffee. From Ireland came Count Cyril McCormack, John's son, sales director of John Locke & Co. Irish distillery, to see what was going on at the Buena Vista. From the Buena Vista, Bartender Jack Koeppler made a pilgrimage to Ireland and was guest of honor at a luncheon tendered by Deputy Prime Minister William Norton. "I might have been Saint Patrick himself, come to throw the snakes out," says Washington-born German-descended Bartender Koeppler...
...Webb, once a Phoenix carpenter, became a builder, grew with the desert boom, is now a multimillionaire contractor and developer, with interests ranging from oil to part ownership of the New York Yankees...
Colgate Variety Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb conducts a celebration of Dixieland jazz, starring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee. Janet Leigh...
...This touchy explosive liquid, used to drive the Viking's fuel pump, was obtainable only in Buffalo, and to get a new supply would take two weeks because it could be shipped only by careful rail transport. When the discouraging news reached the Martin plant, two designers, Bill Webb and Jack Early, hopped into a station wagon, picked up a drum of per oxide at Buffalo, and drove the fearful stuff to New Mexico with carefree speed...