Appointments

Named last week to important posts in the Eisenhower Administration:

GENERAL WALTER BEDELL SMITH, 57, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to be Under Secretary of State. Neither a West Pointer nor a civilian college man, "Beedle" Smith came up from the enlisted ranks. He began as a private in the Indiana National Guard, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in World War I, then climbed the Regular Army ladder until, in World War II, he was chief of staff to Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower. Blunt-spoken and incisive, he took the surrender first of the Italians and then of the Germans. After the war, he served as U.S. Ambassador in Russia; his book, My Three Years in Moscow, gave a notable delineation of the Communist enemy pitted against freedom in the cold war. In his Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower described the qualities that he prizes in the new Under Secretary of State: "A master of detail, with clear comprehension of main issues ... capable in difficult conference . . . Strong in character and abrupt by instinct, he could achieve harmony without appeasement."

DONOLD BRADFORD LOURIE, 53, president of Quaker Oats Co., to be Under Secretary of State in charge of administration. Alabama-born, a Princeton graduate (class of '22), Lourie began as a statistics clerk at Quaker Oats; by 1947 he was company president. In his college days an All-America quarterback, he is still trim and something of an athlete, playing a lot of squash rackets and some golf (average score: low 90s). A crack administrator, friendly and not stuffy, he gets results by encouraging rather than nagging.

CARL WESLEY MCCARDLE, 48, journalist, to be Assistant Secretary of State in charge of "public affairs," i.e., press relations. A West Virginian, graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, onetime student of law at Temple University, McCardle is the gregarious chief of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin's Washington bureau. An old hand at political and diplomatic reporting, he has long been trusted by the incoming Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.

JOHN ALFRED HANNAH, 50, president of Michigan State College, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of manpower and personnel, the job now held by Anna Rosenberg. First distinguished as an authority on poultry, Grand Rapids-born Hannah showed his talent as an organizer when he took over Michigan State; after spending eleven years and $35 million, the amiable, open-door prexy promoted big-time football along with scholastic improvements, moved Michigan State from the country's 23rd college in size to No. 9.

LLOYD ABNER MASHBURN, 55, California's labor commissioner, to be Under Secretary of Labor. A veteran trade unionist (he still belongs to Local 42 of the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers, A.F.L.), stocky, forceful Mashburn has been active in Los Angeles labor leadership, was brought into the state government in 1951 by Governor Earl Warren. Unlike his new boss, Labor Secretary-Designate Durkin, Mashburn is a Republican.

DR. JAMES BRYANT CONANT, 59, president of Harvard University, to be High Commissioner for Germany. Of Plymouth Pilgrim stock, a precocious science student at Roxbury Latin School and later at Harvard, the eminent educator became chairman of his alma mater's chemistry department before assuming its presidency in 1933. In World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served as consultant for Major General Leslie Groves, was the No. I intermediary for scientists, generals and industrialists who helped fashion the Abomb. Since the war's end, he has spoken out forcefully for universal military training. Harvard this week announced Conant's retirement, effective Sept. 1, 1953> when he will become president emeritus. Until then, as High Commissioner, he will be on leave of absence.

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