Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert B. Watson '37, director of athletics whose impending retirement has sparked a controversy over the selection of his successor, announced Wednesday that he will remain at Harvard for another semester to allow the University more time to choose a new athletic director...
...failure of the University search committee to name a successor in the nine months since he announced his retirement made it necessary to stay on to "take up the slack" in the Department of Athletics, Watson added...
Watson said he thinks the committee will not try to name another candidate like Peck. "My successor will be a Harvard College grad," he predicted...
When the wife (Geraldine Page) appears, the first husband proceeds to win her back while his successor eavesdrops in agony from the neighboring room...
Finally he said, "If a transition should occur. I don't want my successor to spend two months getting briefed. I want that person to take over immediately." And that is exactly the way it is working...