Favorite Sons

Two of the New York Times's favorite sons last week took a step up the ivy-muffled Times ladder.

First up was plump, amiable Turner Catledge, 43. Generally considered a better reporter than editor, he gave up a reporter's "dream job" as roving political correspondent for the Times, moved in as assistant to Managing Editor Edwin L. James. Born in Mississippi and brought up there, journalistically, on a handset weekly paper, Catledge has been a Timesman since 1927, except for a brief, unfortunate period as chief correspondent, then editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun during its uncertain infancy.

The "dream job" went to fast-rising James Barrett ("Scotty") Reston, 35, a kinetic, knowing reporter. During the recent Dumbarton Oaks conference, he was usually 24 hours ahead of other newsmen, reportedly because of news sources in the British delegation, who had known him earlier as a well-grounded London correspondent.

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