Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WEBB Bellaire, Texas
...founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents...
Clear skies ahead, and an airline record of 228,580,804 miles flown without accident, helped make the Cairo take-off of Trans World Airlines' Flight No. 903, Bombay to New York via Rome, a routine matter. With no indication of trouble ahead, Veteran Pilot Walton Webb took the big Constellation Star of Maryland off Farouk Field just before dawn and headed northwest...
Washington Report (Sun. 2:45 p.m., Mutual). Guest: Under Secretary of State James E. Webb...
...musical score, which is so overexcited that it sometimes gets in the way of the action. Director Fred (The Search) Zinneman's sensitive work clearly places him in the first rank of screen directors. The film is full of fine performances, especially by Actors Sloane and Webb and Actress Wright. Broadway's Marlon Brando, in his first movie appearance, does a magnificent job. His halting, mumbled delivery, glowering silences and expert simulation of paraplegia do not suggest acting at all; they look chillingly like the real thing...