Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should want to know how Smilin' Jack was doing. Famed as a scientist and educator, he carried a heavy load, but no man could have carried it with greater grace or a lighter heart. Last week, in paying tribute to him on a special broadcast from Boston, his successor, James R. Killian Jr., mentioned his achievements only in passing. Far more important to Killian was Compton himself, "emanating goodness and wisdom . . . and engendering a spirit of good will among all coming within his influence...
...painstaking work on the Armed Services Committee. A semi-pro baseball pitcher in his youth, he spent 22 years in politics (twice state governor), and was the Senate's only dentist. Wyoming's Governor C. J. Rogers, a Republican, said he expected to name Hunt's successor soon to serve until next January...
...Norris Edwin Bradbury, professor of physics at the University of California, who was selected by Oppenheimer as his successor at the Los Alamos atomic project in 1945. Once a graduate student under Professor Oppenheimer at California, Bradbury had found his old teacher "extremely helpful and cooperative," and "completely loyal to his country." He did not think that Oppenheimer had done anything to slow down development of the hydrogen bomb...
...Union Sovietica. He once showed a friend an illustration of a perfectly ordinary automatic bakery oven and exclaimed, "What wonders the Soviets have accomplished!" At the Bridge. By 1948 Arbenz had plenty of money, a smattering of political theory and a firm ambition to be Arevalo's successor. Squarely blocking him was his old revolutionary comrade, Colonel Arana, also a presidential candidate...
...stayed in Paris, painting and photographing, and became a leading exponent of dada's successor, surrealism. When the Germans came in 1940, he took off for Hollywood, where he painted, photographed and lectured. In 1951 he went back to Paris and the Latin Quarter. There he now works, but never more than two hours at a stretch. "I like to work at white heat for short periods," he explains. Painting is his main love, but photography brings in more money. Like a true dadaist, Ray scorns credit for the unquestionable skill of his photographs: "Many photographers consider themselves...