Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their successor is husky, cleft-chinned, 50-year-old Dr. L. (for Lawrence) Wendell Fifield, for the past 14 years pastor of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church. Downtown churches, such as his in Seattle, have special, tough problems. Dr. Fifield tackled his with the same zeal which, during an earlier pastorate in South Dakota, earned him a State handball championship. Well-liked by men as well as women, he reduced his church's indebtedness by $116,000, brought nearly 1,600 new members into the congregation (now over 2,000). He built a radio audience all over...
...luminous Marilyn Miller, star of an English circus, and she danced and sang her musicomedy way into the arms of an ex-doughboy baritone and the hearts of Manhattan theatergoers. Of no small help to her was the catchy score by Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert's successor and equal, and the lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. One of their tunes moved the great Critic Percy Hammond to observe: "One song entitled Who? was attractive enough to indicate that ere the snow falls it will be a pest...
...voice and a look at the record, Governor W. Lee O'Daniel last week jumped into the Texas Senatorial campaign. There are now 21 candidates. O'Daniel's joining them made the State's special election this month, to find a successor to the late, great Prohibitionist Morris Sheppard, the biggest U.S. political show since the Presidential campaign last fall...
...Marshal's only in its outspokenness, it was widely interpreted as an anti-Nazi gesture. It was also commonly said that the Marshal had ousted the only French emissary with whom the Nazis would deal. But in Vice Premier Admiral Jean Frangois Darlan the old Marshal picked a successor to Laval who has made himself superbly persona grata at Berchtesgaden and who is, in addition, much less unpopular in France than the scheming M. Laval...
Last week Leopold Stokowski-while setting out with an All-American Youth Orchestra to tour 45 cities in the U. S., Canada, Mexico-was mentioned as successor to international music's "Old Man" -Arturo Toscanini-at the baton of the great and costly NBC Symphony. The reason was that Maestro Toscanini, up to last week, had kept strictly mum about his future plans, and the NBC Symphony was badly in need of a great conductor...