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...College's oldest alumni, Charles H. Foster '81, who died on Sept. 22, at the age of 95, named the University as the ultimate inheritor of his estate, it was learned yesterday. He was the last living member of his class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles H. Foster '81 Dies as Last of Class | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

...proud bull rings of old Spain, the eight-month bullfight season is nearing its end. The critics regretfully agree that Castile and Andalusia can so far offer no fit inheritor for the cape of the fabulous Manolete, killed in 1947, or for wealthy Luis Miguel Dominguin, who retired last year to dally with film stars. Instead, three brilliant matadors from the New World have flamed up to win the Spanish public's acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: New-World Fighters | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Professor Howe drew the greatest applause of the evening with his defense of President Truman and the Democratic party. Admitting that it was difficult to become enthusiastic about the President, he rosted his case on Truman's role as the inheritor of the New Deal tradition. Howe discarded Republicanism in the fear that the economic basis of society will shift back to corporation interests, while he dismissed the Progressives on the grounds that they have "lost touch with the Liberal cause by their foreign stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Looks Over Candidates | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, inheritor of $20 million, avid pursuer of the outdoor life (horses, deep-sea fishing, hunting, aviation). An instructor pilot in World War I, Whitney entered World War II as a major, served ably in Africa, the Pacific and Washington, came out a colonel with the Distinguished Service Medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man in Motion | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...White House, Harry Truman let it be known that he had tried to dissuade Jackson from his unprecedented action, but had failed. The President was hopping mad. For in the long run, even though he had appointed neither Jackson nor Black, Harry Truman's administration, as the inheritor of the New Deal, would get most of the blame for the unseemly judicial scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Feud, Continued | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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