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...Death to the Cathedral" recalls the story of a Catholic who, after seeing Manhattan's Cardinal Spellman rush into the private office of famed real estate man William Zeckendorf, gasped, "Oh my gosh, there goes St. Patrick's Cathedral...
Born. To William Zeckendorf Jr., 28, son and vice president to the thegn of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp real estate firm, and Gurie Lie Zeckendorf, 28, daughter of former U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Lie. Weight...
Astor to Oscilloscope. New York's modernized old (1904) Astor Hotel reminded Old Soldier Eisenhower of more leisurely times. "During my cadet days at West Point," he told New York Promoter William Zeckendorf. "I stayed at the Astor when I was in the city, but I did not get a bill until after I was graduated, and the management gave me 25% off." Soon the Columbine lifted him back to Washington and more technological advance. He headed a Cadillac cavalcade out to inaugurate the National Broadcasting Co.'s new Washington color-TV studios. Staring at winking oscilloscopes...
BUILDER William Zeckendorf will get $22.5 million loan from Prudential Insurance Co. for his Courthouse Square project to cover two blocks in Denver. He has put up a four-floor department store, by next year will complete a 21-story, 1,000-room hotel with 2,000 underground parking spaces...
...Zeckendorf predicted that the earth's population would reach three billion by 1975. Without immediate urban "reshaping" to meet this increase, he felt that cities would flow into each other "in an endless morbid fluid community...