Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Zeckendorf, president of Webb & Knapp, Inc., set the theme for the Harvard Urban Design Conference last night when he asserted that "the future of the city must be subordinated to the city planning board...
...whimsical comedy about a family who had a self-acknowledged genius for a baby sitter, the film pokes pleasant fun at suburban life and mores. Sitting Pretty's main virtue is the superlative acting of Clifton Webb, who at times is wildly hilarious in a deadpan style as a mysterious and omniscient figure who takes a job as children's companion and domestic aide in order to get background for a lampooning novel about suburbia. He has several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl...
...INDUSTRIAL CITY will rise along Mississippi River 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...
...book, which follows another vast, able biography by St. John Ervine (TIME, Sept. 24), contains much that is new, from correspondence with Sidney and Beatrice Webb to Shaw's own words-enough of them to fill an ordinary volume. It is as thoroughly documented for the time when Shaw was a Dublin clerk as for the time of his London preeminence. Yet the total effect is one of mystery. All his life Shaw shouted his ideas from the world's rooftops. But even an "authorized" biographer like Archibald Henderson is full of hesitancies in deciding which of Shaw...
...when men get shot with bullets like alley cats get shot with peas, nobody is offended. Director Jules Dassin has used every effect of camera and angle, and he never slows down the pace. While it's hard to believe that a fire-extinguisher could ever put Mappin & Webb out of commission--as it does--most gangster films aren't wholly believable, anyway. For instance, when the stopped-up bell starts to ring almost inaudibly, why isn't the Arrondissement's gendarmerie roused by closed wire to action? Well, we don't know, or care...