Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike his predecessor, glib, huckster-handed William Benton, George Allen* is quiet and undramatic. But he is no softie. In Iran, he not only acquired a thorough, first-hand knowledge of U.S.S.R. pressure techniques, but demonstrated firmness in dealing with them...
John Moore's studies of men and manners in the Cotswolds, as presented in Brensham Village and its predecessor The Fair Field (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), will do for the U.S. reader what Hollywood did for Lord Orris-transport him into an overseas dreamland whose main charm is its remoteness from everyday life. Just as the romantic "reporting" of H. L. Mencken makes old Baltimore a place of "happy days," so does Author Moore's accomplished imagination remove his rural Englishmen as far from mediocre reality as Falstaff and Prince Hal are from the men in the Kinsey...
Keys of the Kingdom. At 10 o'clock Sunday morning, the guests settled themselves in the Capitol's Hall of Congress to see Gallegos take over. From his predecessor, Rómulo Betancourt (who had held office as provisional President since the revolution of 1945), Gallegos received the yellow, blue and red presidential sash, took the oath of office. Then the party moved over to the north wing...
...next year Petrillo was elected international president of the A.F.M. With grandiose magnanimity, he gave his predecessor, 73-year-old Joseph Weber, a $20,000-a-year pension for life...
Saturday, Foster will journey to New York, together with the top men from Yale and Princeton, to compete in the annual Harry Cowles tournament, which attracts some of the highest-ranking squash players in the land. Cowles, often termed the "Babe Ruth of squash," was Barnaby's predecessor in the Crimson coaching berth...