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...oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate in a city that is rapidly running out of space. Quietly for the past year, Fox has been drawing up plans to exploit the plot. Architect Welton Becket's models call for Fox to shrink its moviemaking operations into 79 acres on the southwest part of the property, build a $15 million structure to house all its offices and indoor stages. (For outdoor shooting, Fox has a 2,300-acre ranch, 25 miles away...
...house in six days, suggested that the government build an island off Waikiki and announced a plan to put $110 million into new resorts. Last week H.J. began to back his words with actions. After a quick trip to Los Angeles to line up financing, consult with Architect Welton Becket and a representative of Conrad Hilton, Kaiser plunked down $491,000 for more beachfront, thus became Waikiki's biggest landowner (16½ acres...
WALTER WURDEMAN WELTON BECKET Los Angeles, Calif...
...undergraduates at the University of Washington's School of Architecture, Welton Becket and Walter Wurdeman determinedly rushed the same coed. Neither of them married her, but out of their rivalry grew a business partnership that has taken Architects Becket, 45, and Wurdeman, 44, right to the top of Los Angeles' building boom...
...Widow King's five children, Lee King (no descendants), Richard King Jr., Mrs. Alice King Kleberg, Mrs. Ella King Welton, and Mrs. Nettie King Atwood are all now dead. The property went to the Klebergs, to Richard King III, who got 150,000 acres, to the Atwoods, who got 131,000 (now being operated by the trustees of the estate), and to the Welton heir, who sold out to Bob Kleberg. Richard King III now operates his ranch independently of the King Ranch Corp...