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...present, Sennott noted that he knew of no other groups interested in the MTA car barns site. In the past, there has been speculation that such outside investors as Webb and Knapp (William Zeckendorf) were negotiating to purchase the land...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: House May Authorize Study of MTA Land Sale | 3/7/1961 | See Source »

James Edwin Webb, 54, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Another of Kennedy's Phi Beta Kappa keymen (University of North Carolina, '28), chunky, intense Jim Webb was a wartime Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Familiar Faces | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

Bell has really a five-man line when the first-stringers are on the ice; defensemen Tom Casey and Dean Webb skate like towards in a weave pattern that has baffled opponents. When the second team takes over, big Phil Johnston and John Palmer play the conventional defensive game in the rear guard...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Powerful, Balanced Sextet Faces Star-Studded Northeastern Squad | 12/15/1960 | See Source »

Died. Electra Havemeyer Webb, 72, founder of the Webb Gallery of American Art (TIME, Aug. 15) in Shelburne, Vt., which houses 200 American masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, who were bemused by their daughter's interest in Americana, since they themselves had amassed a multimillion-dollar collection of European masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...complex prescription to cure the ailing New Haven Railroad-and other money-losing roads as well-was drafted last week for the Interstate Commerce Commission. Written by ICC Commissioner Charles A. Webb and Hearing Examiner Richard S. Ries, the prescription is aimed at curing the New Haven's steadily rising deficit (expected to hit $14.4 million this year), but some of its ingredients are bound to leave a bad taste in the mouth of everyone from New Haven President George Alpert to the extra engineer who goes along for a free ride on diesel runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Medicine for the New Haven | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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