Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most lively School Committee issue this fall was again one of appointments. Superintendent Tobin retires this June and the Committee must hire his successor. The issue was whether the Committee would settle automatically on one of Tobin's able assistants or go after qualified candidates outside Cambridge...
Auspicious Strides. That Minneapolis was chosen to play the U.S. premiere of such a major work (TIME, Oct. 14, 1966) is attributable largely to the auspicious strides that Skrowaczewski has taken there in recent years. In 1960, when he was named Antal Dorati's successor on the Minneapolis podium, Skrowaczewski was the conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic and a former avant-garde composer. He had made only a handful of guest appearances with U.S. orchestras and was practically unknown in the States. Nowadays his name is not only familiar and esteemed but also correctly pronounced (Skro-vah-cheff...
After waiting until the last day before Chairman Frederick G. Donner's retirement at 65, General Motors finally named its new men at the top. As expected, Donner's successor is 60-year-old President James M. Roche (TIME cover, May 20, 1966). As for Roche's successor, G.M. settled weeks of speculation by tapping Edward Nicholas Cole, 58, one of five executive vice presidents who had been in the running...
...pollution era, agonistic Teddy Roosevelt would no doubt have Australian-crawled to the wooded island in the Potomac that now bears his name. Less energetic visitors these days can get there by boat or pedestrian causeway. Last week, on T.R.'s 109th birthday, his kin and his successor nine times removed walked to the park like ordinary tourists, there to dedicate a memorial to the 26th President...
...MacDonald's accomplishments. Isolated, guilty, constantly compromised by the nature of his work and the demands of personal and professional survival, he labors not to change a world or any corner of it, but to preserve something of his own integrity and decency. Lew Archer is a natural successor to Hammett's jaded Continental Op and Chandler's cynical knight-errant, Philip Marlowe, but his problems and solutions are far closer to us and the business of living...