Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Successor to Ponder? Even with their aces on the sidelines, Ben Jones & Partner Jimmy are not exactly badly off. Wistful, easily the outstanding three-year-old filly of the season after her victories in the Kentucky and Pimlico Oaks, has drawn a sharp bead on this weekend's rich Coaching Club American Oaks. Calumet's 1949 Kentucky Derby winner, Ponder (son of Pensive), is one of the favorites for the Belmont Stakes two weeks hence...
...April, 1948, President Klapper resigned, and the scene was set for the latest--and biggest--campus at Queens College. The Board of Higher Education chose a five member nominating committee under the chairmanship of Henry Schultz to propose Klapper's successor. In the meantime, Dean Kiely continued to set in Klapper's place...
...Northwestern University news office said yesterday that Dean Wild will take over his new position on August 1. No announcement has been made as yet of his successor as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Before the outbursts had subsided, Johnson plunged head first into more trouble. Johnson, who just can't seem to stay away from the press, or be discreet in front of it, let it be known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably...
General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera, pressed by Atlanta reporters to name his successor after he retires next year, obliged with a list that included Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior and Billy Rose, who loves to give widely syndicated free advice...