THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

Gordon Dean. Appointed commissioner in 1949, chairman in 1950.

Born: Seattle 1905, son of a Baptist minister.

Educated: University of Redlands, Calif, and Law School of University of Southern California.

Career: Served as assistant to the dean at Duke University Law School. In 1934 he went to Washington as attorney in the Department of Justice. In 1937 he rose to serve Attorney General Homer Cummings and his successor Robert Jackson as special assistant in charge of public relations. When Brien McMahon, chief of the criminal division, resigned in 1940 to start his own Washington law firm, he took Dean along as a partner. Dean worked with the McMahon firm until 1943, when he joined the Navy. In 1945 Robert Jackson took him to Germany to handle public relations at the Nuernberg war-criminal trials. In 1946 Dean returned to California to teach law at the University of Southern California and to raise lemons and avocados on his ranch in Vista. From this pleasant exile he was rescued in 1949 by McMahon, by then Senator from Connecticut and chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.

Family: Dean is married, has two children.

Appraisal: Dean's unassuming appearance is largely an illusion. He is a shrewd man, wise in the folkways of Washington. He knows how to cope with aggressive lobbyists, arrogant Senators and predatory rivals in Government.

Henry DeWolf Smyth. Appointed 1949.

Born: Clinton, N.Y. 1898. Father was professor of geology at Princeton.

Educated: Princeton A.B. 1918, A.M. 1920, Ph.D. 1921, Cambridge Ph.D. 1923.

Career: From Cambridge, Smyth returned to Princeton as an instructor in physics, rose until in 1935 he headed Princeton's physics department.

In World War II, he became consultant for the atom-bomb project. In 1945 he published the famous "Smyth Report" (Atomic Energy for Military Purposes).

Dr. Smyth is married, has no children. He looks, acts and talks like a stage scientist sympathetically portrayed. In the AEC, he specializes on scientific matters and the problems of the great laboratories.

Thomas E. Murray. Appointed 1950.

Born: Albany 1891. Father was multimillionaire utility magnate, Thomas E. Murray Sr., inventor of heating and electrical equipment.

Educated: B.S. Yale (Sheffield Scientific School) 1911.

Career: Murray has been active in manufacturing and public utilities and served for eight years as receiver of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit system.

Murray is shy, earnest, retiring. He is married and has eleven children, two of whom are Jesuits. He is conspicuously religious (Roman Catholic); at meetings of the AECommissioners, he sometimes calls upon God for guidance.

Thomas Keith Glennan. Appointed 1950.

Born: Enderlin, N.D. 1905. Father was a train dispatcher.

Educated: B.S. Yale (Sheffield Scientific School) 1927.

Career: Glennan started out as an electrical engineer, veered into moviemaking by way of the electrical aspects of sound pictures. He became operations manager of Paramount Pictures Inc. in Hollywood, studio manager in 1939. In 1942 he returned east to be director of the Navy's Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London, Conn. In 1947 he was chosen president of Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland.

Glennan is married and has four children. In AEC affairs he specializes with great success on engineering and production.

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