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...FRANK D. WEBB Wheaton...
...Daddy Webb. Chicago has also escaped serious injury so far this summer, at least in part because three large youth gangs, the Garfield Cobras, the Blackstone Rangers and the Disciples, have decided to block violence. Catastrophe might easily have occurred last week when a white storekeeper killed a Negro on the South Side, but the Disciples kept the peace. In Venice, Calif., the newly formed Gangbusters persuaded police to leave a crowd of 500 angry Negro kids, then dispersed the gathering without incident. In Atlanta, a number of "crisis patrols" have been organized that also include ex-convicts. The patrols...
Smiths & Sidewheelers. Last month Shelburne was-in a manner of speaking-completed, when J. Watson Webb Jr., her son and president of the museum, dedicated the 35th building on what is now a 45-acre expanse of farmland: a white 1830 Greek Revival-style house designed to display the paintings and furnishings from his parents' Manhattan apartment. (They died in 1960.) The new building joins eight Early American houses, eight barns and sheds, a general store, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, jail, smithy, covered bridge, railroad station, steam locomotive, lighthouse, sawmill, hunting lodge, and the 892-ton Lake Champlain sidewheeler Ticonderoga. Most...
...third of the buildings show objects grouped together in museum fashion (although many are worth it: Shelburne's collection of 500 handmade quilts and coverlets is without peer). Most of the pieces are simply scattered throughout the buildings. "Some collectors have the place and find the piece," Mrs. Webb once explained. "Not I. I buy the piece and find the place." Six of Shelburne's houses, for example, are furnished for imaginary families whose habits and histories were dreamed up by Mrs. Webb to fit the pieces she had assembled. Each house has books, furniture, china and clothing...
...Electra Webb loved to talk in such proverbs, and the new memorial building at Shelburne faithfully reflects her homespun, silver-spoon style. The Rembrandts in the living room complement a Chippendale sofa covered in needlepoint, an English secretary and an English gaming table. Mary Cassatt's pastel of Electra's mother hangs in her bedroom. Desk and dresser tops are crowded with silver-framed photographs of her children and grandchildren-and a white satin pillow on the bed bears the red-embroidered maxim: "We live in deeds, not years...