Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico, which traditionally goes in for magnetic types as political leaders, Ruiz Cortines is quite a change. A staid and decorous little man with an ingrained aversion to personal publicity, he has none of his predecessor's razzle-dazzle or zest for gay Acapulco yachting parties. His favorite form of relaxation is playing dominos. Even the most cynical Mexicans acknowledge his honesty. "I was poor as a boy, and I still am," he said during the campaign...
...Admiral Horatio Nelson's 187-year-old flagship Victory last week, a court martial sat in judgment on another British naval hero whose duty was dogged by domestic complications. Lieut. Commander Alastair Campbell Gillespie Mars, 37, had neither the rank nor the romantic inclinations of his great predecessor, but during World War II he was one of Britain's ace submarine commanders. His part in sinking some 30,000 tons of Axis shipping earned him both the D.S.O. and the D.S.C...
...open again, Aldebaran is only too glad to marry the first man who offers her a steamship company as a wedding present. In this case there can be no complaint about the happy ending-it brings the book to a close some 700 pages sooner than its famous picaresque predecessor...
...correspondent worth the price of a cable toll knows that, in moving to a new post, he will inherit a desk calendar covered with mysterious scrawls, address books with unidentified phone numbers, a bewildering assortment of old news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor. W ith perseverance, he usually succeeds in living down the ghost of his forerunner. But Cranston Jones, who recently became TIME'S correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, thinks he will always be haunted by a triple-decker ghost named White...
...Into the presidency of General Mills, Inc., stepped Charles H. Bell, 44, the third generation of his family (his grandfather founded the predecessor company) to head the country's No. 1 milling company. After he left Yale University in 1929, Bell went to work at General Mills to learn the business from the ground up, became a top sales executive, and executive vice president in 1950. Bell succeeded Retiring-President Leslie N. Perrin, 65, who has headed the company since...