Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even friends do not escape. To Anthony Eden, for more than ten years heir apparent to the Tory leadership, 72-year-old Churchill likes to recall that Gladstone formed his last cabinet at the age of 82. Eden is not amused...
...contemporaries, had called it great and noble from first note to last. Said he: "This symphony will live as long as there is a nation that calls itself France." But after Berlioz' death in 1869, his symphony for band was largely neglected. Richard Franko Goldman, son and heir-apparent of famed Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman (now 69) had come across it in the scarce diggings of classical band literature, adapted its score for the 56 instruments in the Goldman Band. Said he: "Few, if any, bands today could manage to produce the eight bassoons which Berlioz desired." Goldman substituted...
...Franco rhetoric about "Christian democracy" has disappeared. Falangist "Old Shirts," supposedly displaced, are active again. Franco's phony succession law (which will permit him to appoint his own political heir) is practically being written by Falangists. Said Franco last week: "The Falange is . . . the soul of our national resurrection...
Through the dingy corridors of City Hall, the big news typhooned. Within half an hour, hundreds of jobholders dutifully swirled into Boss Hague's office to wish him luck. They also took care to shake hands heartily with Heir Apparent Eggers. By noon, 2,000 citizens overflowed into the streets. All city business was suspended...
...once told his attorney, Weymouth Kirkland: "The minute I become friendly with a man, he wants me to keep his divorce out of the paper or something." When he dies, the Colonel will leave his empire in the hands of a junta of its officers. He has no son & heir, but he has a favorite niece, blonde Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller, 26 (daughter of the Colonel's late brother Medill and Ruth Hanna McCormick), who is learning the business with her husband by running a small-town daily in La Salle...