Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this academic year, Wright will step down from the presidency of Smith. The identity of his successor--it will probably be a man--is a jealously guarded secret...
...morning last week Deems ended the struggle by calling Mayes into his office and firing him. His successor: able Wade H. Nichols, 43, editor of McCall's Redbook, who will move to Good Housekeeping at $65,000 base pay plus bonuses. A man who delegates responsibility, Nichols earned a solid reputation by converting themeless Redbook into a magazine that aims at young adults, raising circulation from 1,915,905 when he took over in 1949 to 2,591,676 this year...
...central machinery of the church. Result, at the time of his death: 15 vacancies in a superannuated College of Cardinals, no Secretary of State, no governor for Vatican City, no camerlengo (see The Succession). Said one of his closest advisers sadly last week: "He provided badly for his successor...
...appetites the world over. A greeter, Oscar in his white chef's cap stood figuratively astride the gourmet banquet table like some culinary colossus, a familiar and beloved figure to trenchermen of his day. No such adulation has fallen on the narrow Gallic shoulders of Oscar's successor, Claudius Charles Philippe, 47. Son of a French chef, London-born Philippe migrated to the U.S. in 1929, stirred soup in a variety of kitchen pots, even sold Fuller brushes for a spell before going to the Waldorf as Oscar's assistant...
Acting at the same meeting, the RYDC appointed Ellen R. Wolf '59 acting President until a permanent successor to Miss Lang is elected...