Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to have three institutions at the Academy," said a Navy commander. "Billy goat, Tecumseh and 'Spike' Webb. Now we have only two." Unfortunately, the Navy can do little about its loss. Tecumseh's bronze hide is still proof against the weather and the pranks of midshipmen. Replacing a billy goat is not too difficult, even at Annapolis. But time is beginning to catch up with Spike, the bald and bandy-legged little boxing coach who taught generations of officers and gentlemen to box. He has turned 65, and the rules of the Naval Academy have forced...
...most respected U.S. allies reversed itself surprisingly last week. Back home from the Geneva Conference, New Zealand's External Affairs Minister Clifton Webb told Parliament that Red China should now be admitted to the U.N., "in an endeavor to drive a diplomatic wedge between Red China and Russia." New Zealand (which does not itself recognize Red China) has long agreed with the U.S., its ANZUS partner, that Red China should not be admitted until it changes its aggressive ways. But now Webb argued that in view of Chou En-lai's behavior at Geneva, "it would be hard...
...Zeckendorf, whose deals have probably made him the No. 1 U.S. realtor, last week clinched his biggest deal yet. In Manhattan, President Arthur F. Douglas of the Statler Hotels announced that the board of directors had accepted an $80 million offer to sell out to Zeck-endorf's Webb & Knapp...
...deal would give Webb & Knapp, which already controls $250 million in property (including Manhattan's Chrysler Building), and has operated in 30 states, one of the choice hotel systems in the world. Founded by the late E. M. Statler in Buffalo in 1908, the chain is now the third biggest (after Hilton, Sheraton) in the U.S., with eight hotels and two office buildings, in Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, New York and Los Angeles, worth $67 million. Having already built four of the seven major U.S. hotels put up in the last 25 years, the chain...
...Pretty soon he'll feel like his arms are 16 feet long. He'll fall apart trying to put them somewhere. You have to know what to do with your hands. All these things-you get to do them instinctively. I admire good actors -Spencer Tracy, Clifton Webb, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Widmark-they're good...