Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking for a successor to retiring President Henry Nobel MacCracken, Vassar College set out to get "the best possible person, man or woman." Last week Vassar found what it was looking for, picked the first woman president in its 85 years. The choice was Cornell's Home Economics Dean Sarah Gibson Blanding...
Last week, after many turnings, Averell Harriman's chosen path led him into a State Department reception room in Washington. Greying at 54, but still lean and handsome, he had just flown to the U.S. from Moscow. The President had appointed his successor-shrewd, driving Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, who had been General Eisenhower's wartime chief of staff. Now Harriman was to hold a last press conference. But before he could start talking, the door opened. State Secretary James Byrnes walked in. He was smiling and in his hand he carried a small leather case...
Last April Secretary of State Stettinius (presumably with the knowledge and consent of President Roosevelt), swore there were no more secret agreements at Yalta except military ones. This week, on Yalta's first anniversary, his successor released what he swore was Yalta's last secret agreement...
...instructions, helped hold the line for free presidential elections. But Sumner Welles in the U.S. and Vargas supporters in Brazil denounced the speech as intervention, loosed a fierce attack that probably made old New Dealer Berle look forward happily to resuming his Columbia University law professorship. Mentioned as his successor: Career Man R. Henry Norweb, present U.S. Ambassador to Cuba...
Awaited as the successor to the similar and successful "One for the Money" and "Two for the Show," Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne's inevitable third in the series has some good ideas, but is still too close to the dress-rehearsal stage to have achieved the pace and polish that a review needs for Broadway. Luckily for "Three to Make Ready" and for New York, Broadway is not its next stop...