Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clutch of musicals caters to the best and worst of tastes. The astringent wit of Abe Burrows fuses How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the impish energies of Robert Morse provide the explosive for an evening of delight. Multi-aptituded Zero Mostel brings his masterly clowning to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an uproarious burlesquerie lewdly adapted from some plays of Plautus...
Fast Action. When a Supreme Court Justice retires or dies, the President usually takes a while to name a successor. Franklin Roosevelt waited six months, for example, before naming Frankfurter to succeed Benjamin Cardozo. But Kennedy had made up his mind in advance, announced Frankfurter's replacement right away: Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg (TIME cover, Sept. 22. 1961). Longtime general counsel of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg, 54, qualified as an eminent and successful lawyer, as a liberal of the activist New Frontier type, and as a Jew (Frankfurter was the court's only Jewish member, and political doctrine demanded that...
Beyond Wirtz. In nominating a man to succeed Goldberg as Labor Secretary...
Wirtz has a reputation as a wit, and he tried hard to live up to it at the press conference. After Goldberg made a speech saying he was "delighted beyond words" that Wirtz was going to succeed him, Wirtz opened up his own little speech with: "If it was a pun the Secretary was intending, and he was saying he was delighted beyond Wirtz, he was wrong." At one point, Wirtz quoted from Tennyson's Idylls of the King...
...least twice more that he did not want to appoint Frankfurter to the court. Finally, F.D.R. got to the point. "But wherever I turn," he said, "and to whomever I talk that matters to me, I am made to realize that you're the only person fit to succeed Holmes and Cardozo." And so, Roosevelt said, he was going to appoint Frankfurter to the Supreme Court anyway...