Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain, then as Assistant Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that at 40, slim, sandy-haired Gordon Gray had learned enough to run the whole show. He nominated Gray to succeed fellow North Carolinian Kenneth C. Royall as Secretary of the Army...
...gracious but sharp-eyed Met directors. They apparently liked what they saw: a tall, fastidious man of 47, with charm and a manner of quick, cool decision. At lunch next day, they raised a question: would he consider leaving Glyndebourne and his great Edinburgh Festival (TIME, Sept. 20) to succeed retiring General Manager Johnson in 1950? Rudolf Bing considered it carefully. The Met's directors liked him even better for the way he candidly answered their questions about his policies and prescriptions for curing the artistically and financially ailing Met. Said Bing: "I have not the slightest idea...
...varsity tennis team officially put the lid on the spring tennis season this week with the announcement that Hilliard Withers Hughes, Jr. '05, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Eliot House, will succeed Ted Bullard as captain for the 1950 season...
Judson T. Shaplin '41, assistant dean of Freshmen, has been appointed Registrar of the Graduate School of Education, it was stated. George P. Mayhew '41 will probably be named to succeed him as assistant freshman dean; Mayhew has been an instructor in English A for the past few years...
Just what manner of man was this Briton Hadden who was voted the "most likely to succeed" by the same Yale class that voted Henry Luce the "most brilliant," and who proceeded, with Luce, to create 'Time' before he was twenty-four? Busch tolls you that he was an "editorial prodigy." By this, Busch seems to mean that from the first months of his life Hadden was possessed by the desire, and the ability, to publish his ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious...