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Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche this week appointed a new U.S. Senator to succeed Robert A. Taft. He named his old friend and protégé, Cleveland's Mayor Thomas A. (for nothing) Burke. A quiet, round-faced lawyer, 54-year-old Tom Burke has been in public office during much of his life. In 1941 Lausche, then mayor, appointed him Cleveland's law director, the No. 2 position in the city government. He became Lausche's right-hand man, stepped up to the Mayor's chair in 1945, after Lausche was elected governor...
Nikita Khrushchev, cold and colorless protégé of the late Joseph Stalin, was formally fixed as No. 2 man in the new Soviet firmament. The Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee last week elected Khrushchev its first secretary, i.e., party boss (TIME, Sept. 7), a post that makes him second in power and influence to Premier Georgy Malenkov...
...authoritative opinion, Britons naturally looked to the Canine Defense League, whose 187,000 members follow their protégés' habits with absorbing intensity. The league's opinion: white lines might help the Post Office protect public property, and do not infringe a dog's natural rights. "Of course, if they began painting a white line around every tree, we might begin to be a bit uppish," said the league secretary...
Sensing a national scandal, President Vargas abandoned his protégé, ordered Wainer's radio station closed down got ready to shut Ultima Hora too. Characteristically, Sammy devoted the station's last hours to heart-rending appeals to Vargas, interspersed with plugs for Ultima Hora. Then Sammy gave in, sold his stock at half-price (for $15,000), and resigned as editor and publisher...
...these puzzles, Sir John seems to be the man. Born in Greenock, on Scotland's Firth of Clyde, he "drifted into accountancy," probably because his father was in it. Sir William McLintock, head of Britain's famous Thomson, McLintock firm, soon drafted the "drifter" as his protégé, moved him rapidly up to a partner. During World War II, Morison ran the Ministry of Supply's financial affairs and served on the vital War Damage Commission, which decided how much should be paid to thousands of blitzed British property owners. He was knighted...