Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth R Andrews, Master of Leverett House, said last night he is looking for a successor to Charles S. Maier '60, but there is no list of candidates...
...would like to have as my successor a person who would continue with the reforms I have begun and carry them much further...
...Editor Harold Ross was a man of many maxims. Among them: "Nobody gives a damn about a writer or his problems except another writer." Assuming that his readers had no interest in reading about his writers, Ross kept intramural gossip out of his magazine, and so has his successor William Shawn. Yet neither editor could stem the tide of moonlight memoirs by New Yorker staffers. James Thurber gave Ross himself a full-dress treatment in The Years with Ross (1959). Now, on the magazine's 50th birthday this week, comes Brendan Gill's account of his nearly...
Kelley himself is happy to be out of Walton's shadow. "This year we're playing against someone we think is human," he says, referring to Walton's successor Ralph Drollinger, 7 ft. 1 in. "Now people go out onto the court and play to win. They used to play to stay close...
...when his horse fell on him, crushing 23 of his 24 ribs, Douglas was undaunted: he was back on the bench six months later. In childhood he confounded doctors' expectations that his polio-stricken legs would forever be useless. In addition, Douglas knows that a Ford-nominated successor might well tip the court into pronounced conservativism, a result that would seem a disaster to the old liberal...