Word: successor
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...after Stalin's death was proclaimed, the world learned the name of his successor: Georgy Malenkov, gross and flaccid in appearance but in fact a chip off the same granite block. For the moment, there was no sign of quarreling among the pallbearers. While the new regime dug in, the rest of the world might get a breathing spell, But the death of Stalin itself did not change any fact of geography, economics or ambition; it did not destroy a single Soviet regiment nor ground a single MIG, nor stop a single...
...world awoke next day to learn that his successor already had stepped into office (see below), that Stalin's body was in the hands of the embalmers (the same who mummified Lenin). His funeral date had been set, and the Supreme Soviet had been summoned for an emergency session. The dictator was dead, but dictatorship continued; the efficiency of all this suggested to the outside world that Stalin may have been dead even before the first announcement of his illness...
...legitimize his rule with a papal anointing and a blue-blooded wife, suffered military disaster of a kind that has not yet befallen Soviet Russia. Russia's own Peter the Great, who sent his only son to death for disagreeing with his reforms and failed to pick another successor, bequeathed Russia a murderous struggle for power that lasted for a century; but he faced a nobility and a clergy that had never really submitted to the Czars. Malenkov has some assets in his inheritance which no other dictator had: ¶A generation which never knew anything but Communist rule...
Last week, broadcasting a special Wednesday night service, Dr. Straton's lineal successor, the Rev. John S. Wimbish, celebrated the 30th anniversary of Calvary Baptist's "Radio Ministry." It is the oldest continuing religious broadcast on the air. Now using the facilities of Manhattan's station WMGM, Calvary broadcasts twice each Sunday to a radio audience clustered in half a dozen nearby states. Its programs are also picked up on short wave and relayed by Station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. Last year Pastor Wimbish got 25,000 letters from his U.S. and foreign listeners, many of them...
Died. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 73, history's most successful tyrant, successor to Vladimir Ilich Lenin as Premier of the U.S.S.R.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after 29 years in power; in Moscow (see DEATH IN THE KREMLIN...