Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to the U.S. for vacation will come Edward R. Murrow, London commentator and European news chief. To succeed him CBS's star special events broadcaster, Bob Trout left the U.S. for London by Clipper this week...
Betty Cordon, the Stork Club's official G. G. No. 1, started back to school to learn to be a kindergarten teacher. Ann Sheridan, the Harvard Lampoon's onetime choice for "least likely to succeed," joined President James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found...
...final accolade came to Britain's No. 1 economist, John Maynard Keynes, last week. Bank of England shareholders elected him a director, to succeed the late Lord Stamp. Orthodox oldtimer Montagu Norman, the Bank's Governor, thus played a sly old English trick: he swallowed his opposition. Monty, just turned 70, also waived in his own favor the Bank's unwritten rule requiring directors to retire at 70, remained in office...
TOKYO, Saturday, Oct. 18--Former War Minister Lieut, Gen. Hideki Tojo was reported today to have completed formation of a new government to succeed the cabinet which was headed by Prince Fimimaro Konoye which resigned Thursday because of failure to obtain an accord with the United States...
...some fellows named Kern, Gershwin, and Hammerstein, contribute a hearty portion of sparkling entertainment. The plot--since movies, it seems, must have plots--is bad enough to be annoying, but unobnoxious enough to be ignored. Robert Young struggles to keep it going; the fact that he doesn't succeed doesn't bother anyone, least of all the audience...