A Parcel of Appointments

Still parceling out his appointments, President-elect Kennedy named last week these men to high office:

John L Moore, 58, administrator of the General Services Administration, the Government's housekeeping agency. Business vice president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1954, Moore has been a prime mover in the university's building program. Moore leaves Penn with his biggest planning job still on the drawing boards: the West Philadelphia Corp., a $50 million urban-renewal project undertaken by Penn and four other Philadelphia institutions to rehabilitate their ramshackle sections of the city.

Newton N. Minow, 34, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Hours after he had explained to his family about the new job in Washington, Lawyer Minow overheard eight-year-old Daughter Nell conclude her bedside prayers with ". . . and God bless Mommy and Mr. Chairman." Adds Mr. Chairman: "I can only say amen. I've got a tiger by the tail, and I haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. An aggressively loyal Stevensonian, Minow campaigned for the Governor (now his fellow partner in the law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz) in both 1952 and 1956, did his best to try to persuade Adlai not to fight Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination.

George W. Ball, 51, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Another Stevensonian, Lawyer Ball was executive director of Adlai's volunteer groups in the 1952 campaign, took charge of his candidate's public relations in 1956. He is no stranger to Treasury corridors. After his graduation from Northwestern's law school in 1933, he served two years in Treasury during the yeasty reign of Henry Morgenthau Jr. before going into private practice in Chicago. Ball was a wartime federal gadfly for the Lend-Lease Administration and Foreign Economic Administration--experience that proved useful in his postwar private practice. He became a specialist in international law, adviser to the French government and French industrial clients on a wide spectrum of plans calling for the economic integration of Europe.

Henry H. Fowler, 52, Under Secretary of the Treasury. Courtly little "Joe" Fowler, a Virginian and a Yaleman (LL.B., '32) spent more than a decade as an attorney for the New Deal without ever becoming a convinced New Dealer. Once rated by a fellow lawyer as "the most careful man in the U.S.," Fowler reached his high point of Government service in 1952, when he was named director of the Office of Defense Mobilization.

A successful Washington practitioner of corporate law, Fowler helped shape the antirecession economic program turned out for Jack Kennedy last fortnight by M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson.

Jerome Bert Wiesner, 45, Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Articulate, pipe-smoking Jerry Wiesner has tramped through North Carolina and Alabama in search of folk songs with famed Collectors John and Alan Lomax. He is also an experienced, politically adroit Government adviser on scientific matters, with a staggering list of credits: he directed development of an early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory of Electronics, Wiesner is both an administrator and a theorist.

Elvis J. Stahr Jr., 44, Secretary of the Army. As an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky, Democrat Stahr won the highest marks in the school's history, a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship. He has worked for a Manhattan law firm, and taught at the University of Kentucky's law school after wartime infantry service in the C.B.I. theater. He took leave from teaching to serve as a special adviser to Army Secretary Frank Pace during the Korean war, spent 19 months as vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh before stepping in two years ago as the youngest president in the history of West Virginia University.

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