Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naval Career: Navy Assistant Secretary for Air in February 1949, Navy Under Secretary the following May. First former Army pilot to head Navy. Has attended interservice meetings daily for past two years as Navy's representative; knows Pentagon and Navy's inner workings far more thoroughly than Predecessor Matthews (see below...
...Geography. Yale's transformation into a true university had started under Angell's predecessor, Economist Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, Yale's Grand Old Man (of whom a colleague once said: "He thinks in Hebrew; reasons in Latin, spins you a joke in Greek"). Angell completed the transition. Suddenly, the cautious campus found itself with a brand-new engineering school, an observatory at Johannesburg, the first U.S. graduate school of nursing. With the millions that poured in, mainly from Philanthropists Edward S. Harkness and John W. Sterling, Yale got a whole new geography. Angell built...
...Hollywood Story (Universal-International) is a very poor man's Sunset Boulevard. Like its predecessor it shows the Hollywood of the present poking into the Hollywood past, with the movie great at work and at play, and screen oldtimers (Francis X. Bushman, Helen Gibson, William Farnum) as they look today. But the new movie is a formula whodunit without benefit of suspense, characterization, or anything else except some superficial Hollywood atmosphere...
...rivalry between the HDC and the HTG began in 1946 when the Theatre Group's predecessor, the Veteran's Theatre Workshop, was organized by a group of veterans headed by Jerome A. Kilty...
...possible to speculate that Bingham resigned--or was asked to quit--because his views on amateurism conflicted with University policies. But Bolles' views are nearly the same as those of his predecessor. Was Bolles appointed because his great popularity would allow him to understand alumni pressure better than others? If so, this is a poor reason for taking him off the Charles...