Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an A.B. degree in economics and a Phi Beta Kappa key. He moved up quickly, went to Washington in 1933 as No. 2 man in the News bureau. A nervously energetic man, who dresses smoothly and looks younger than his age, Moody is regarded as the probable successor to 66-year-old Editor W. S. Gilmore. Moody is a man who could do a lot to talk up Soapy's own Washington ambition, which is to get the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1952. At his swearing-in this week, the new Senator indicated that he might like...
Tonight's crimson Key formal, "April in Paris" is the successor to last year's first all-college dance. It will feature a 24-foot model of the Eiffel Tower in the middle of the Indoor Athletic Building gym. Posters for decorations, flown in from Paris, had to be discarded by the Key because they were too obscene...
...five days, Truman hugged his secret. The Joint Chiefs held emergency meetings to discuss MacArthur's successor. They decided on Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway, then picked Lieut. General James Van Fleet to replace Ridgway as Eighth Army Commander in Korea. The secret was so closely guarded that* Van Fleet himself, unaware of it, was vacationing on his brother's Florida farm when his appointment to Korea was announced. Monday, Truman saw his congressional leaders and met with the Cabinet, asked opinions of both groups, but told neither what he planned later. Secretary of State Dean Acheson undoubtedly already...
...Eighth Army's rear headquarters, Ridgway prepared to relinquish his old command. "This is not goodbye in any sense of the word," he told correspondents, "because I am still very much a part of this team." Before his final departure for Tokyo, he turned reassuringly to his successor, Lieut. General James Van Fleet. "I won't get in your hair, Van," he said...
...what sort of line he would follow as chancellor of Chicago, Kimpton would give only a philosopher's hint last week. "I am not a Thomist," said he. "You might call me a neo-Kantian." Thomist or not, Kimpton seemed as good a successor to Hutchins as any the trustees would ever have found in the 3,200 pages of Who's Who. Explained one trustee: "He knows how to say no, and that's about three-fourths of the job of being chancellor...