Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated. It was so successful that in 1969 CBS offered him $80,000 a week for a show opposite Carson...
Harvard's sixth year coach has a career lifetime record of 72-81. She has now won more games than any other Harvard women's basketball coach, passing her predecessor, Carole Kleinfelder, with Saturday night's win over Brown. Thirty six of her wins have come in the Ivy League--29 over the last three years...
...painstakingly polite man in person, he seems stiff and tense on camera. Even his attempts at spontaneity and good humor look programmed. One week he tried ending his broadcast with the sign-off "Courage"; widespread derision forced him to drop it after three nights. Walter Cronkite, Rather's predecessor, was calm and reassuring, an avuncular figure to the nation. Rather seems tightly coiled and uneasy, an eccentric cousin capable of almost anything...
Also, Alfred A. DelliBovi, administrator of the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration, has backed off from a commitment made by his predecessor. The former chief, Ralph Stanley, had said the project would be given top consideration for funding if the state paid 50 percent of the cost...
...such ambiguity on the menu, which starts with superior spring rolls and delivers reliably satisfying Szechwan main dishes. This is a far better restaurant than its predecessor, House of China, which wasn't bad. Only the sameness about the sauces keeps it from greatness, the greatness we so yearn for in the leaderless Mandarin-Szcechwan cuisine of today...