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...ZECKENDORF: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM ZECKENDORF, with Edward McCreary. 312 pages. Holt, Rineharf & Winston...
...time is September 1954. Spyros Skouras, Laurance Rockefeller and William Zeckendorf have just passed through an elaborate security screen to reach a Los Angeles meeting with the suspicious, secretive industrialist Howard Hughes. Through Skouras, Hughes has leaked his intention of selling his enormous holdings to devote the proceeds to medical research. Rockefeller, philanthropist and president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Zeckendorf at that time, the extraordinarily successful head of the Webb & Knapp real estate empire, have come out from New York...
...meeting is a waste of time. First Hughes feigns ignorance of its purpose. Then Zeckendorf cuts through the mumbo-jumbo and makes an offer. Hughes rejects it out of hand but has what he wants: a free appraisal of his property's value from one of the nation's most astute and best-publicized business brains...
Remember Judge Roy Hofheinz? He's Houston's one-man answer to P.T. Barnum, William Zeckendorf and Clint Murchison-the developer extraordinary whose projects always seem to start with a thud, then prosper with a vengeance. His Astrodome, for example. Hailed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World," the air-conditioned stadium began with a clear plastic roof. Baseball players lost fly balls in the glare, so the dome was painted. Then sunlight could not reach the grass, which withered, so artificial turf was laid down. Now everybody is happy...
Died. Marion Griffin Zeckendorf, 62, second wife of Manhattan real estate Wheeler-Dealer William Zeckendorf; in the so far inexplicable (clear weather, no apparent mechanical difficulty) crash of an Air France Boeing 707 while landing at the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing all 63 aboard. A gracious Georgia lady who professed never to understand her husband's operations (though some of his properties were in her name), she devoted herself to charity, raising funds for everything from ballet to the A.S.P.C.A...