Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago Harvard lost a president, and the CRIMSON invited the nation's cartoonists to speculate on his successor. The results ran in the CRIMSON in the spring of 1953, and were reprinted in LIFE...
...built by brother Huey, but last week paunchy Earl sprang plans for a brazen circumvention: he will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...
From that simple church next week, clad in a black, gilded robe and bearing a diamond-studded crown, Mina the Solitary will journey to the patriarchal palace in Cairo, where he will reside, Copts believe, as St. Mark's 116th successor...
...Scarcely a week after Eddie Erdelatz resigned as head football coach, apparently in pique at Academy refusal to give athletes special privileges, Navy picked his successor: Wayne Hardin, 32, for four years backfield coach under Erdelatz. Captain Slade Cutter, Navy's athletic director, pointedly described Hardin as "a man who knows the problems at the Naval Academy and sympathizes with them...
...austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis has spread the six-year Greek secondary-school program through seven years, has planned courses to goad students to independent thought, promoted an unheard-of give and take in classrooms. Davis will leave the school and Successor Rice with an encouraging financial boost; fortnight ago the Ford Foundation announced that it would give Athens College $250,000 for scholarships and salaries of Americans who will teach at the academy...