Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Hobby's successor was 43-year-old Colonel Westray Battle Boyce, widow and onetime government worker, who started in the WACs two years ago, served as a supply sergeant, rose rapidly through the ranks to staff director of WACs in the North African theater and finally director on the Washington staff of Oveta Hobby...
Fresh from the lead in "Keys of the Kingdom," Gregory Peck appears as the logical, and similar, successor to Walter Pidgeon as Greer Garson's (Mary Rafferty) partner in marriage. Lionel Barry more is his usual explosive self as vindictive Pat Rafferty, while Donald crisp performs competently as a sympathetically presented steel magnate...
Washington dopesters promptly began speculating on his successor. Two best bets: Vermont's Warren Robinson Austin or Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, both able Republicans. Democratic possibilities also mentioned: new Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach or U.S. District Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime Congressman of Indiana...
...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...
...impending resignation as Secretary of the Interior, spelled out the situation in his own sweet way: 1) he had offered his resignation when President Truman took office; 2) all told, he had submitted at least six resignations; 3) two different names that had been mentioned as his successor's were both right, because "it takes two men to do this job." Concluded terrible-tempered Harold Ickes: "Even Methuselah had a successor...