Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most enjoyable sections is the etiquette and cook book collection. The library does not buy any of these books--all are donations. Julia Child, for example, gives to the Schlesinger many of the books she receives as gifts, and will probably bequeath her personal collection. Barbara Solomon, King's predecessor as director of the library, persuaded Widener to donate to Schlesinger its sundry etiquette books. Some useful bits of information contained in the older books include handling servants and curing a husband's baldness...
...leadership in both houses now looks forward with dread to the 96th Congress, which is likely to be even more unmanageable than its predecessor, the 95th. The new members, like the electorate that chose them, will be hearing the disco beat and doing their own thing...
Thad Cochran, 40, the first Republican Senator from Mississippi since 1881, is as rigidly conservative as his Democratic predecessor, six-term Senator James Eastland. In three terms as a Congressman, Cochran ran up a 95% voting approval rating from the American Conservative Union and a zero approval rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Cochran has a boyish charm and is an easygoing, relaxed campaigner. He has consistently drawn votes from both parties and run up increasingly large winning margins (as high as 78%) in his congressional campaigns. He won last week in a three-way race against Democratic...
...last week, in a posthumous statement published in the journal Nature, the late British Geologist James Archibald Douglas offered his solution to the Piltdown hoax. The culprit, said Douglas in a tape recording made only a few months before his death last February at age 93, was his predecessor as professor of geology and paleontology at Oxford University, William Johnson Sollas. The motive: Sollas wanted to destroy the reputation of a hated rival by tricking him into publicly accepting as authentic what would later be unmasked as an elaborate joke...
Appearances to the contrary, Upstairs, Downstairs Producer John Hawkes-worth has not settled down in my lady's parlor. True, his new 15-part Masterpiece Theater presentation, a joint venture of the BBC and TIME-LIFE Television, has several things in common with its award-winning and much-beloved predecessor. Chief among these are intelligence and taste. The series is as handsomely produced, the Edwardian settings and costumes as lush and authentic, as any devotee of 165 Eaton Place could possibly wish. But Louisa Leyton, the heroine of The Duchess of Duke Street, would never pass muster with Hudson...