Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great managing editors of his time. What made matters worse was that Bovard, before he stalked out of the P-D (at the end of a long disagreement with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer), had made it clear that he thought City Editor Ben Reese something less than a worthy successor...
Last week Ben Reese, 62, had a more personal piece of news for the staff: he was retiring in June. His successor: Raymond L. Crowley (rhymes with holy), 55, P-D staffer for 29 years, city editor for 13, whom Reese had been quietly grooming for the past four years. Like Bovard, hard-boiled Ben Reese would leave his successor a legend to compete with...
...Pont Building. It meets all day, lunching with top men from the line departments and lower-echelon people who get to know the top command in this fashion. The top command also learns to know those in the lower echelons. Says Greenewalt: "I started looking for my successor the first year I was in office...
Paradise, Canto XXVII, wherein St. Peter states that his successor (Boniface VIII) has turned the Church into a sewer choked with blood. He also quoted from Guicciardini, Carducci and other poets to show that "during 20 centuries, free-thinking men have often had occasion to think of Popes as guilty of other men's blood." Cried he: "So, do you want to send Dante to jail?" After 50 minutes' recess, the court found Laura Diaz guilty, sentenced her to eight months' imprisonment, suspended the sentence on a surety of good conduct...
Died. Lieut. General José Enrique Varela, 59, one of Dictator Franco's top generals during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), and once considered his likeliest successor; of leukemia; in Tetuán, Spanish Morocco. During the Spanish war, Varela led the Fascists to a decisive victory at Toledo, later became War Minister. Pro-monarchist and anti-Axis, he was fired in 1942 after falling out with the Falange. Since 1945, Varela had been Spain's colonial ruler in Morocco...