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After four months of furious effort, the fast-moving real-estate firm of Webb & Knapp Inc. had control of a rundown, 30-acre, eight-block area on the East Side (41st to 49th Streets, First Avenue to the East River). Webb & Knapp promptly announced plans to replace the run-down stables, warehouses, slaughterhouses and tenements with the biggest, costliest city-within-a-city ever built. Cost: $150,000,000. Features: a 57-story office building, three 30-story apartments, a 6,000-capacity convention hall, a yacht landing, a helicopter field, a 5,000,000,000-sq.-ft. parking platform...
...scrawled note was brief: "This will introduce Willy Humphrey. He is ready for the freshman class. (Signed) William R. Webb...
...good enough for Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Graduates of any other prep school had to bring along an elaborate collection of grades and records, but not the boys of "Old Sawney" Webb of Bell Buckle, Tenn. (pop. 378). Returning from Versailles, Woodrow Wilson, onetime president of Princeton, told Webb alumnus Norman Davis: "The Webbs defy all the accepted laws of pedagogy, but their boys were the best prepared that...
Last week Webb School of Tennessee opened for its 76th year, and 155 Southern boys squirmed on the same hard wooden benches in front of the pot-bellied stove where Old Sawney had called many an earlier class to order. Old Sawney was long since gone, but Webb School, about 50 miles southeast of Nashville, still sticks to Greek and Latin drills and the no-nonsense teaching that made the old man the South's leading prep-school educator for more than 50 years. The headmaster now is Old Sawney's son, William Robert Webb Jr., 72 himself...
This shopper's how-to-buy dream is also the latest how-to-sell dream of big, balding William Zeckendorf, 41, up & coming executive vice president of the up & coming New York City real estate firm of Webb & Knapp, Inc. What made it more than a dream was that by last week bustling Bill Zeckendorf was almost ready to make it come true. He had: 1) 90% of the necessary property (in the heart of Flushing, near the site of the last World's Fair), 2) the financial backing of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 3) the unofficial...