Word: successors
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...Work Goes On. Most likely successor to the retiring Chief Justice is his able subordinate and close friend, mustached French-Canadian Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret (rhymes with kin-fret) because of Canada's custom of alternating top judicial appointments between the two language groups and major religions. French and Catholic, balding Justice Rinfret, like his colleague, believes that the law is not an "affair of literal precepts but a social instrument...
Cardinal Kinsley, Britain's only Cardinal and the Archbishop of Westminster, died last winter (TIME, March 29). Last week Pope Pius XII appointed his successor: 44-year-old Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Auxiliary (assistant) Bishop of Birmingham. The little-known prelate will be the leader of England's and Wales's 2,400,000 Roman Catholics. The appointment was also tantamount to telling Mgr. Griffin that he will some day get a Cardinal...
...chief reason is that General Mar shall has now attained the stature of a military statesman. He has the hearty respect and confidence of Congress and the nation, qualities the Administration sorely needs in Washington. Any successor would need many months to acquire his prestige, his experience in global strategy, and his smooth-working relationship with his fellow members of the Combined Chiefs of Staffs-to whom General Eisenhower will be responsible...
Sued for Divorce. Fletcher Martin, 39, Thomas Hart Benton's successor as chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute's painting department; by Maxine June Ferris Martin, 28, onetime Iowa hospital supervisor; after two years of marriage (his third, her first), ten months of separation; in Kansas City...
Solid, spectacled "Tommy" Holcomb announced briefly this week that he was retiring as head of the Marine Corps, seven years to the day after he took com mand. His successor: 56-year-old Lieut...