Word: predecessor
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Improved advertising technique is not the only difference between WXHR and its predecessor. Where WBMS operated on the AM band, WXHR uses Frequency Modulation, which is static free and has a greater tone range. Moreover, WXHR is on the air during the evening from five to eleven o'clock. This means that WXHR has a wider "good music" audience than WBMS which was required to signoff at sundown and therefore was limited to the housewife group. Thornton also feels that FM listeners are more progressive and intelligent, and that night time FM can become a possible competitor to television...
...happy confusion of Byrnes's inauguration, his predecessor was not forgotten. As outgoing Governor J. Strom Thurmond, 48, and his pretty wife, "Sugar," 24, packed up to move out of the executive mansion last week, a group of personal and political friends turned up to bid them goodbye. As a token of esteem for the man who ran for President in 1948 on the Dixiecrats' states' rights program, the friends brought along a shiny new Cadillac and five crisp $100 bills to help the Thurmonds set up housekeeping at Aiken. "I'm floored," said...
...Some of his recent letters hint at a mental deterioration such as reduced his predecessor to a shell of a man before death." So the Tribune wanted Congress to handle the matter exactly like impeachment, except that the "allegation of mental incapacity" would be substituted for that of impeachable crime in office. "The testimony of competent psychiatrists would, of course, be sought." Afraid that the patient would not submit quietly, the Tribune added: "Since Mr. Truman would still have his veto power, the actual accomplishment of such a process would probably still require a two-thirds vote." The Tribune apparently...
This bit of information from Maurice P. Riordan, one of our readers in Limerick, Eire, was surprising indeed, and we proceeded at once to investigate it via our London bureau. Here is what we found out about our Victorian predecessor...
...Find Health Through Prayer) Clark, "I have dreamed of writing a sequel to it." What Would Jesus Do? is Author Clark's dream come true-a dedicated, step-by-step retracing of Author Sheldon's bestseller in terms of the post-World War II U.S. Like its predecessor, it is a composite sermon preached by its cast of characters, many of whom are the children or grandchildren of the characters in In His Steps. Urged by their minister (grandson of Author Sheldon's minister) to emulate Christ, they react to the atomic age much as their grandparents...