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Lieut. General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 52, commander of the U.S. 28th Infantry Division, will succeed Gruenther as Chief of Staff. Schuyler is a protégé of Eisenhower and Gruenther, for much of the past two years has had charge of SHAPE'S atomic problems...
...thoroughness with which "disarray and panic" were guarded against showed preparation. There seemed little doubt that: 1) Stalin himself had picked Malenkov, his longtime protégé, for the top job; 2) the general plan, if not the details, of succession had been worked out long ago, with Stalin's approval. Significantly, however, in the first days no one claimed publicly that Stalin had planned it that...
...would not pay attention in school but was always doodling. It was such gifted doodling, however, that at 13 the scrawny Michelangelo was put to learn the painter's trade in the workshop of Ghirlandaio. Within a year the master himself was making jealous noises at his prodigious protégé. Lorenzo de Medici, the Florentine dictator, was so impressed with the boy's genius that he adopted him and educated him as one of his own sons...
Died. Arthur Harry Moore, 73, thrice governor of New Jersey (1926-29, 1932-35, 1938-41), U.S. Senator (he resigned after three years to win an unprecedented third term as governor) and longtime protégé of the Democrats' Jersey City Boss Frank Hague, who helped him roll up the largest gubernatorial plurality (230,000 votes in 1931) ever received in the state; of a stroke while driving his car; near Somerville...
...citizens of France's bustling, southern city of Nimes (pop. 75,398) were every bit as proud of their local opera house as Belgium's aging ex-Prima Donna Eva Closset was of her protégé, José Faés. Nimes's playhouse, built in 1798, is billed as "the oldest theater of its kind" with no attempt to define its kind; Eva's protégé was her favorite nephew. The theater and José were brought together last June when Eva sent a circular letter to every opera manager...