Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skilled debater, with a ready wit that should serve him well in the rough & tumble of the House, Pearson steps at once into the front ranks of Liberal leadership. In this, he makes a striking parallel with his predecessor: St. Laurent was no politician when he entered the cabinet (as Minister of Justice) in 1941, and now he is moving into the Prime Ministry. Many politicians, citing the parallel, thought that Pearson might well travel the St. Laurent road...
...fame, Author Caldwell abandoned his narrow, though unusual gift. Prompted perhaps by the party-line critics and earnest sociologists who misread his sordid stories as profound exposures of Southern society,* Caldwell undertook to write "seriously." The result was lamentable: each of his recent novels is more inept than its predecessor, and the latest one is as scrawny a literary turkey as has been hatched...
...proven administrative ability by trustees who regard big universities as corporations which need executives, not educators, to run them. He will have charge of a faculty of 1,862, a student body of 18,600, and responsibility for raising $32 million for new buildings. Stassen's predecessor, George William McClelland, had resigned the presidency because of ill health, but would still be around as chairman of the university...
...Petersburg in the winter, Igor loved to prowl among the operatic scores of his father, Feodor, a famed basso who was Chaliapin's predecessor at the Imperial Opera. Young Igor was given a "piano mistress" at nine, quickly learned to read music-and improvise. His parents did not want him to be a musician. They packed him off to the University of St. Petersburg to study law-but only after Igor got their permission to study harmony on the side. At the university, Igor made friends with Vladimir Rimsky-Korsakov, and showed his compositions to Vladimir's famous...
Died. Dr. Franz Weidenreich, 75, famed German-born anthropologist; in Manhattan. His research on Asiatic skull fossils led to a revolutionary theory that modern man was descended from a giant rather than a pygmy predecessor. Aided by discoveries of Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, he revamped the chronology of human evolution, placed the huge Gigantopithecus (450-550,000 years old) as man's earliest known ancestor...