Word: successors
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...Charles B. Henderson, 73, resigned as chairman (but not as a director) of RFC for reasons of health. As his successor, RFC elected John D. Goodloe, 38, an ex-newspaperman and lawyer who has been working his way up in RFC since 1932. He has been a director (replacing George Allen) since last January and has had the often hard job of explaining RFC's operations to probing Congressmen...
...years in the Foreign Service. As Ambassador to the Russian-dominated government of Poland he could remember little but frustration. So that he would be free to speak as a private citizen on Poland's "tragedy," tired Arthur Lane resigned. Last week Harry Truman picked his successor. Warsaw was in for something. The new Ambassador will be 59-year-old Stanton Griffis...
...another U.S. businessman quit the Foreign Service. Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...
Last week Washington learned that Dean Acheson really meant what he had said. Those in the know were sure that his successor would be lean, articulate, 51-year-old Robert A. Lovett, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air and an old friend of Marshall...
...sensible novelist, he gently escorted the lady to his house in Harley Street (where she was to live as his mistress for many years) and made haste to turn their fortunate meeting into Chapter I of his next novel, The Woman in White. This novel, and its thrilling successor, The Moonstone, made Wilkie Collins one of Victorian England's richest and most popular writers...