Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thilly) BEATITUDE refers in this sense to the highest happiness, the felicity of the blessed (the years of loving sacrifice in scraping that boxful without letting Patty go short were amply crowned for John by this one moment. He sat down again in the corner wrapped in beatitude -Mary Webb) (a sense of deep beatitude - a strange sweet foretaste of Nirvana -Max Beerbohm) BLESSEDNESS suggests the deep joy of pure affection or of acceptance by a god (the blessedness of the saints) BLISS may apply to a complete and assured felicity (all my life's bliss from thy dear...
...desk clerks wear evening clothes after 6 p.m., coffee is ground just before brewing. Shrewd Businesswoman Sharp (who took over Sharp Ltd. Hotels on the death of her husband in 1941) last week sold the Gotham, the Stanhope and California's Beverly Wilshire to William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp for $25 million. As replacements, Mrs. Sharp plans to put up in Manhattan and Beverly Hills a pair of new luxury hotels, as posh as ever but with modern details, such as refrigerators disguised as antiques...
Married. Del E. Webb, 62, hustling construction king who shares ownership of the New York Yankees with Sportsman Dan Topping; and Toni Ince, 40, former Los Angeles millinery buyer; both for the second time; in Reno...
Moving Time. Alleghany is a rich prize. Besides its I.D.S. stock, Alleghany owns 50,000 shares of Transamerica Corp., a West Coast insurance holding company, and $20 million of notes in Bill Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp real estate company. But its biggest holdings are in railroads: it controls the New York Central, owns more than 50% of the class B stock of the Missouri-Pacific, and holds, in conjunction with the Central, 20% of the Baltimore & Ohio's common stock. In all, Alleghany controls companies with assets of about $6.7 billion...
...Road. By a tricky exercise in genealogy, the Post traces its ancestry all the way back to Benjamin Franklin. In 1728, then a 22-year-old Philadelphia printer, Franklin told a fellow printer named Webb that he intended to start a periodical. Webb liked the idea so well that he stole it. But nine months later, after achieving a circulation of 90, the Universal Instructor in All Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette was sold to Franklin, who shortened the title to the Pennsylvania Gazette and set the weekly on the road to renown...