Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malign influence. When Richelieu died, a British rival wrote, "He was the torment and the ornament of his age," and added that it was strange that Richelieu "is shut up dead in so small a space, whom, when living, the whole earth could not contain." Richelieu and his successor, Cardinal Mazarin, left Louis XIV so remarkable a diplomatic organization that French gradually displaced Latin as the diplomatic language of Europe...
...succeed him," the Prime Minister arranged an elaborate set of party soundings weighted to show that Home was everybody's compromise candidate. In fact, wrote Macleod, only two of the 13 ministers he had spoken to favored Home, while many agreed that Butler "was the right and obvious successor." Macleod resigned rather than serve under Home, as did Health Minister Enoch Powell (though Rab Butler stayed on as Foreign Secretary...
Bergson, Fainsod's successor at the Research Center, is on a leave of absence while working at the Ford Foundation's Center for Behavioural Sciences in Stanford, Calif...
After the death of the Los Angeles Times's Editorial Cartoonist Bruce Russell last month (of a heart attack at 60), Publisher Otis Chandler went hunting for a successor. Last week Chandler, who wants "the best of everything" for his paper and is prepared to pay the price, announced a considerable catch: the Denver Post's Paul Conrad, 39 (TIME, June 13, 1960), one of the best editorial cartoonists...
...Times will not affect his distribution to some 81 papers through the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate under a contract that has four more years to run. Thus his work will continue to appear in the Denver Post-at least until Palmer Hoyt goes hunting for a successor...