Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even his best friends would argue that this background makes Johnson a qualified transportation expert. But he does inherit from the late Joseph B. Eastman a smoothly functioning ODT, and from his ICC experience a practical knowledge of the problems of wartime transportation...
...decline & fall of the Saltonstall political fortune was typical of the political decline & fall of the whole proud line of New England's first families. Leverett Saltonstall did not so much inherit a political tradition as resuscitate...
Also devoted to the plight of Europe's children is They Shall Inherit the Earth, by Czech Novelist and Playwright Otto Zoff (John Day; $3). It is written from the relief workers' point of view, with an enthusiastic foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; its greatest lack is the statistics that would give substance to its disconnected case histories and its well-intentioned but sketchy stories of distress among the 100,000,000 children of the Axis-occupied countries. Most shocking question it raises: When Europe's uprooted children grow up, what will they do to a world...
Young (38), straw-haired Lord Burghley should fit the office well. He is a scion of the brilliant house of Cecil, which has furnished Britain with some of its most distinguished statesmen and soldiers. His father is the Marquess of Exeter; from him some day Lord Burghley will inherit enormous estates in Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire. His wife is a sister of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Burghley looks like someone disguised as a handsome, sporting Englishman, but his is no masquerade...
Blushers, Cheer Up. No one knows exactly what causes high blood pressure; it is not, as many suppose, merely old age or overindulgence in red meat, salt, drinking or smoking. About 40% of hypertensives seem to inherit a tendency to it; even babies sometimes have it. Dr. Page blames excitable nervous systems for a great many cases (evidenced by the fact that anger or fear makes blood pressure jump), and he suspects that another source of the disease is a chemical called angiotonin, released by the kidneys when their blood supply goes wrong...