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...crooned Frank Sinatra in the late 1960s. Now, since his semiretirement from show biz, his business rivals are learning that he really meant what he sang. The latest object of Sinatra's approach: the Del E. Webb Corp., a $340 million-a-year Phoenix-based company that was founded by the late Del Webb, the renowned builder and former part-owner of the New York Yankees, who died in 1974. Late last month Sinatra filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a 14B form, which is the customary prelude to a proxy war. Bracing for the onslaught...
...Nevada hotels and casinos: the Sahara and the Mint in Las Vegas, the Sahara Tahoe in Lake Tahoe and the Primadonna in Reno. Sinatra is both a Las Vegas entertainment idol and an entrepreneur. He even held a Nevada gaming license in the early '60s. Evidently impressed by Webb's potential, Sinatra in 1975 quietly began to acquire 420,000 shares, or 5%, of the company's outstanding stock. To finance part of the purchase, he borrowed $850,000 from a City National Corp. subsidiary. Meanwhile, he and his attorney, Beverly Hills Lawyer Milton Rudin, and their...
...Margaret Webb Royal Oak, Mich...
...City real estate tycoon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Working with some of the world's leading architects, Zeckendorf built such monuments as the Mile High Center in Denver and Montreal's Place Ville Marie. But the wheeling and dealing backfired in 1965 when his firm, Webb & Knapp, went bankrupt with a debt of nearly $15 million...
...Thompson's mark is everywhere present in Gutman's book. But even in Britain, where Thompson's work has begun to create a great deal of new historical investigation, the forces of established history still exist. One of the so-called classic reference textbooks in modern English history, R.K. Webb's Modern England, written five years after Thompson, is quite openly "based on an old-fashioned but still lively assumption--that the people in power are and will remain the principal stuff of history...