Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week cigar-chomping Curtis LeMay was called back to Washington to take over the Strategic Air Command, succeeding General George C. Kenney. His successor in Wiesbaden: pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 56, brilliant wartime commander of all Allied air forces in the Mediterranean...
Then the Security Council appointed the U.S.'s Ralph Bunche as Bernadotte's temporary successor. Bunche is a brilliant American Negro, son of a Detroit barber and grandson of a southern slave; a Ph.D. (Harvard), he was professor of political science at Howard University, specialized in colonial problems, served in OSS during the war, joined the State Department and finally became director of U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...would ,ever find his like. For 35 years, Bayard Dodge had impartially dispensed advice, criticism and friendship to all creeds and factions, but kept his tropical suits unsullied by political controversy. Last week a troubled Near East (see INTERNATIONAL) got its first look at Dodge's successor...
Board & Room. For Lujack's successor at quarterback, Leahy was counting on Frank Tripucka, a shy, skinny New Jersey senior. Like all but a few Notre Dame players (and like many other college players), 21-year-old Tripucka is "working his way through." In exchange for free room, board and tuition, he does easy campus chores (e.g., painting stadium seats) after football season is over. Last year Tripucka completed 25 passes for 422 yards (Lujack's mark: 61 for 777)-but he was not yet a Lujack at tackling, running, or field generalship...
...Queen," shouted Princess Wilhelmina from the palace balcony when the ceremony was over. As the crowd below echoed the cheer, she threw her arms around her daughter and bussed her firmly. Juliana wept. A few minutes later, the ex-Queen left the balcony and the realm to her successor. In the square below, the crowd burst into the traditional anthem Up Orange! Some remembered to alter the last line to "Long Live Juliana!" Others went right on singing "Long Live Wilhelmina," as they had for 50 years...