Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation dismissed Lloyd P. Jordan from his position as football coach yesterday, but did not act to name his successor...
While the Corporation decided to take up the last two years of Jordan's contract at about $12,500 per year, it announced no action on his successor. No information was available on when or how it would choose, but one member of the Faculty Committee said that a choice would be announced in less time than it took to pick Jordan as Art Valpey's successor...
...tell him, and us, why he has been fired. He said rather bravely, in his St. Louis hotel room last night, that there were a lot of nice people at Harvard and he like working here. Whether he believes this doesn't matter; but it is important that this successor believe it. Rumors that Josh Williams will get the post seem to imply that Harvard wants to keep its football small-time and doesn't mind if it loses a game now and then. If Williams gets the post, it will be going to a home-trained...
...city's food, were shut tight. In a scene reminiscent of The Emperor Jones, Magloire in full uniform paraded through town demanding that merchants open up. They either avoided their presidential visitor or refused his demands. Two days later, somewhat humbler, Magloire called in his constitutional successor, Supreme Court President Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, and turned over the office of chief executive...
Flipflopping about the stage of the Paris Opera, flabby Ballet Dancer Serge (the "Great Torso") Lifar, 51, in his lithe, bygone prime (see cut) the selfproclaimed successor to the great Nijinsky, was a parody of his younger self in his "farewell" performance in Giselle. A theater full of balletomanes paid tribute to Lifar more out of nostalgia than immediate appreciation. But retirement would come hard to Russian-born Serge Lifar. ,"If the occasion presents itself to dance Afternoon of a Faun," growled he, "I'll dance Afternoon of a Faun...