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...Dean Acheson's right-hand man, Under Secretary of State James E. Webb, is seriously considering leaving the department himself. In three years, Businessman Webb, a 45-year-old North Carolinian, overhauled the State Department's administration, made sense out of the old welter of overlapping bureaus and responsibilities. Ailing since an attack of virus pneumonia several months ago, he wants a rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Through the Turnstile | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Races. Last week, Donald Gibson, 50, looking like a puffy Clifton Webb, sat in a Bridgeport courtroom charged with manslaughter by negligence in the death of Lizzie Ayres. The state knew that it had a weak case, but the witnesses paraded to the stand and told amazing stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Doctor & the Spinster | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Nina survives Gloria Swanson's over-acting to offer an evening of French fun. David Niven and Alan Webb are around, too. The Shubert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

Niven, the suave, debonair Lover, is suave and debonair, but it is largely as a foil for Miss Swanson and Alan Webb that his role has signicance. He is the befuddled straightman and, as such, he hands the show to Webb on a silver platter...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/7/1951 | See Source »

...Webb, remembered as the father in "The Winslow Boy," is a surefire comedian. At first the indignant husband, he is soon impressed by the glamorous life of Niven, and in a show-stopping soliloquy, makes the third act by extolling the duties of the carefree bachelor. He is magnificent...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/7/1951 | See Source »

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