Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emerging relatively unscathed from a war that shattered most of the Continent, Scandinavia today is heir to the intellectual and cultural leadership of Europe that has been held for many years by France and Germany, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, states in a recent issue of the Aftenpostens Chronicle of Oslo, Norway...
...affairs, the rest of the week on his movies. He is up and into a cup of tea by 7 a.m. in his suite in London's Dorchester Hotel. Before 8, in pops John Davis, 39, a slim, sharp Englishman who is Rank's general manager and heir apparent. He occupies the neighboring suite so that his encyclopedic movie knowledge, learned in 18 years in the business, is always at hand. By 9:30, Rank is in his office, a remodeled Georgian mansion in Mayfair. Business does not even stop during...
Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry J. (Bob) Topping, 33, tin-plate heir; she for the fifth time (her second: Dan Topping, brother of the current groom), he for the third; in Miami Beach...
...Bhopal's followers was the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur who has saved more animals than Bikaner has shot. Dholpur keeps a big preserve where all animals are safe. He also consults holy men on his prospects of getting a male heir...
Quebecker Coté, onetime political reporter (Montreal's La Patrie and Le Canada), ticked off the men he thought most likely to succeed: 1) Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, 48, who is the "heir presumptive"; 2) Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, 47, "whose affability makes him the most popular of ministers"; 3) Health Minister Paul Martin, 43, "whose . . . eloquence and ambition make him a candidate"; 4) Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner, 63, "a first-class organizer"; 5) External Affairs Under Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 49, who "leads all the dark horses by manylengths...