Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again. "I've heard nothing from Heaven yet," he added...
...great U.S. predecessor, John James Audubon, Menaboni has the greatest reverence. Says he: "I have studied every Audubon I can find. He was a very great artist...
Like its immediate predecessor, Happy Days (about his boisterous Baltimore childhood), this is a book of reminiscences -a rollicking account of Henry Mencken's start and rapid rise in journalism from 1899 to 1906. Interspersed are hilarious portraits of tavernkeepers, politicians, cops and other period fauna...
...College at the chance to coach at Notre Dame (his alma mater) when Elmer Layden last winter resigned to become tsar of the professional National Football League. Besides a traditionally tough schedule, brave Coach Leahy will be further handicapped by his resolve to overthrow the system of a successful predecessor, substituting stuff that may or may not work with the material at hand. But so great is young Leahy's reputation (only two defeats in 22 games as head coach at B.C.), rival coaches expect that this year's Notre Dame team will be among the country...
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