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Word: webbe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round, paneled office atop the Manhattan headquarters of Webb & Knapp, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has three telephones, a bronze Matisse nude, but no windows. The reason, says the room's designer, is that for a showman like Bill Zeckendorf "it would be ridiculous to create any environment for him other than one consisting exclusively of himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: The Chrysler Deal | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

Leverett won over Adams 2 to 0, scoring twice in the first five minutes. After early scores by Charles Webb and Guy Pascahl, Bunny goalie Dick Simmons stood off the repeated rushes of the erratically passing Gold Coasters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Winners In Soccer Opener | 10/14/1953 | See Source »

...condition of his approval of the Browns shift, Western-minded New York Yankee Co-Owner Del Webb got from other league fathers a concession that raised new hopes in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The American owners changed their constitution to allow enlargement of the league to ten clubs if "it should become desirable to bring major-league baseball to the Pacific Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Orioles Sing Again | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

WILLIAM Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, the Manhattan real-estate company which bought Charlie Chaplin's Hollywood lot for $650,000, will lease the studio to television film producers, build a big new shopping center on the vacant part of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

WILLIAM Zeckendorf, boss of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp real-state and investment firm, is planning a huge, new project: a 22-story, $100 million building to cover two blocks on New York City's West Side as a showcase for American merchandise. The building, rising above the Pennsylvania Railroad's underground tracks, would have more floor space (6,000,000 to 7,000,000 sq. ft.) than any other building in the world, and have a heliport on the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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