New Executives

P: Consolidated Vultee directors elected General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), 59, as their president. McNarney was top U.S. general in the Mediterranean theater in 1944-45, later commanded all U.S. forces in Europe. After war's end, he was boss of procurement and research for the Air Force at Wright Field, and from 1949 to his retirement this year, he was chairman of the Department of Defense Management Committee, a top-level military coordinating group. At Convair he succeeds La Motte Turck Cohu, 56, president since 1948, who becomes vice chairman of the board under Chairman Floyd Odlum.

P: Into the top spot at Colonial Airlines stepped Branch T. (for Taylor) Dykes, 50, operations vice president for nine years and a Colonial director since 1944. Dykes learned to fly in the Army during World War I, later worked as a field manager for the U.S. Mail Service and regional maintenance superintendent for American Airlines. In 1941, Colonial hired him as its top maintenance man. As president, he succeeds Alfons Landa, who took the job on a fill-in basis when Sigmund Janas resigned under fire from the CAB (TIME, July 2). Last week Landa reported that Colonial had a 1951 net profit of about $213,000 v. a $310,000 loss in 1950.

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