Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grau, then General Manager of the Metropolitan, offered to let her sing in a Sunday night concert, but Farrar, 16, refused. A Sunday night concert was no occasion for a prima donna's debut. Instead Sidney Farrar sold his store in Melrose, borrowed, in addition, from a Mrs. Bertram Webb of Boston some $30,000* and the Farrars started for Europe?on a cattle boat...
...late for a rehearsal with the Detroit Symphony. The orchestra, busy under Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, would not stop immediately to go over the part of the program it was to share with Baritone Thomas, saw instead its star soloist stride angrily from the hall. This, explained Manager Jefferson B. Webb, was the reason for the last-minute substitution of Tenor Richard Crooks...
...arrangement was that Mrs. Webb should advance funds until Farrar's voice was ready to earn her an income. In return, Farrar's life was insured in Mrs. Webb's favor. It was all repaid, Farrar writes in her Geraldine Farrar, within two years after her return...
Besides his duties as college sports editor of the Globe, Mr. Webb writes professional baseball and hockey for his paper. He is the New England College Sports correspondent for several New York and Philadelphia papers...
...Webb's style, like the Globe style in general, depends upon facts. He is not unconscious of the drama of football, but he is not given to printing intimate little scenes from the lives of great college athletes. He seldom wakes a coach up in bed, and if he does he does not describe the tone of his voice. When facts are not available, Mr. Webb's hunches are based on the facts of the past, plus such facts as he learns through his contacts...