Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
...wife, in the last act to kill himself. The husband is much the most rewarding member of the trio-a hypochondriac who sneezes just when he intends to shoot, a red-nosed reindeer with, deep down in him, a bit of the wolf. British Actor Alan (The Winslow Boy) Webb plays the part so delightfully that he is even able to raise some hopes for the play. But the play grows increasingly harried and hack. And though David Niven does a nice job as the lover, Ratoff brings hobnail direction to scenes that need dancing pumps. Actress Swanson...
Nina survives Gloria Swanson's over-acting to offer an evening of French fun. David Niven and Alan Webb are around, too. The Shubert...
...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...