Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jelkes (Margaret Leighton) is a Nantucket spinster of nearly 40 who does portrait sketches to eke out a precariously transient existence, but all of her emotional assets are banked with her 97-year-old grandfather, Nonno. Billed as "the world's oldest living and practicing poet," Nonno (Alan Webb) gives poetry readings and wears the stiff white coffin of great age with gallantry as he wrestles with his failing memory to complete a new poem...
With a rare talent for expanding now and financing later, Manhattan's aggressive William Zeckendorf, 56, long ago made himself master of one of the nation's most grandiose real estate empires. The catch was that Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, Inc. was always barely one gasp ahead of its creditors: by last year the company was staggering under some $100 million in short-term debt, found itself so short of ready cash that Zeckendorf was obliged to swallow his pride and abandon cherished plans to build a $60 million Manhattan luxury hotel named after himself (TIME...
Married. Walter Prescott Webb, 73, gruff, poker-playing philosopher of the frontier, leading historian of the American West (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers); and former president of the American Historical Association; and Mrs. Terrell Dobbs Maverick, 60, widow of Texas' late salty-tongued Congressman Maury Maverick; both for the second time; in Fredericksburg, Texas...
...Never at a loss for a grandiose idea, Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon William Zeclcendorf, boss of the widespread Webb & Knapp empire, acquired a controlling interest in Yonkers Raceway for International Recreation Corp., a Webb & Knapp affiliate. Estimated cost: $17 million. Zeckendorf's avowed intention is to build a geodesic dome over the track to make it a year-round sports arena. More likely, he will merge the profitable Yonkers with International in order to write off the losses on International's Freedomland amusement park, which has yet to show a profit. Always in need of ready cash, Zeckendorf...
Cornell is probably the class of the Ivy cross country circuit, and the varsity couldn't be in worse shape for a tough encounter. Captain Mark Mullin, Ed Hamlin, Bob Knapp, and Gerry Webb are all suffering from bothersome injuries...