Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed scholarly Career Diplomat Herschel V. Johnson, former member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., as Ambassador to Brazil to succeed William D. Pawley (see LATIN AMERICA...
...play cannot succeed without a good Othello, but a better interpretation of Iago than that of Fred Graves might have redeemed the evening's procedings. Mr. Graves is an actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor...
When Editor R. M. Barrington-Ward left on a voyage last winter, Deputy Editor Casey moved into the magnificently shabby Editors Room at Printing House Square. When Barrington-Ward died in Tanganyika, nobody expected Casey to succeed him. Fleet Street rumors pointed to the Economist's brilliant Editor Geoffrey Crowther or the Times's Senior Assistant Editor Donald Tyerman (whom Tories consider too far left); Colonel the Hon. John Jacob Astor, who owns a controlling interest in the Times, couldn't get Crowther so didn't try, and needed Tyerman where he was. He decided...
Indiana University picked one of Alvin ("Bo") McMillin's playing and coaching proteges to succeed him: mild, schoolmasterly Clyde B. Smith, 42, onetime Indiana line coach, now head coach at La Crosse (Wis.) State Teachers College...
...American Tobacco passed up George Washington Hill Jr., now 39, when it came to making a new president 18 months ago. To succeed old man Hill the directors picked Vincent Riggio, 71, who was vice president in charge of sales. Un der Riggio, Lucky Strike advertising went along as noisily as before, but Luckies' sales were no longer as good as they should have been. There was talk of trouble in the biggest tobacco company in the world...