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With the possible exception of fine food, there is nothing that William Zeckendorf likes better than fine property. As boss and only stockholder of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., he controls a gross $100 million in real estate. Through Webb & Knapp, 250-lb. Bill Zeckendorf has such varied holdings as 50,000 square feet on San Francisco's fashionable Nob Hill, a huge tract in Los Angeles, a jail in Boise, Idaho, Denver's Courthouse Square and sizable holdings in Manhattan. No deal is too big for Zeckendorf; it was he who assembled the land...
...Phillies. Last week, also, a secret was out. Rickey, always a wise head at selling at the right time, had put his block of Brooklyn stock (25% interest) up for sale. The asking price: something around $1,000,000. The man on the inside track: New York Realtor William Zeckendorf, who specializes in big deals (he gathered up the Manhattan property which John D. Rockefeller Jr. later gave...
...regional monthly it grew from a circulation of 913 to 53,000, but was losing $15,000 an issue, having set its contract ad rates too low. Bob Smith signed up two new angels: Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., run by William Zeckendorf (TIME...
Ince had been planning to revive Stage (with backers that included Doris Duke and Real Estater William Zeckendorf) when he heard that Theatre Arts was on the block. He figured that it was cheaper to buy it (for about $40,000) and merge it with Stage than compete with it. When her magazine was sold out from under her, Theatre Arts' able Editor Rosamond Gilder, who had been combing Manhattan for a buyer herself, resigned. The new magazine, out in April, probably would be called The New Theatre Arts...
...Promoter Zeckendorf had let his U.N. site go for a 20% profit, he said. Now he was busily buying up East Side property as far west of U.N. as Grand Central, getting ready to refurbish the whole area. When he sells or develops his neighboring blocks, he expects to make his usual 400% profit. Said he with happy anticipation: "That's how we make progress in this wonderful capitalistic country...