Chink & Beanie

For almost a decade, two able administrators have labored to bring Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to an ailing U.S. Last week, as foreign administrators for the U.S. State Department, these two prepared to set out into an ailing world.

> Cherubic Calvin Benham ("Beanie") Baldwin, protege of Henry Wallace, began working at Farm Security Administration (then Resettlement Administration), in 1935. He spent $1 1/2 billion trying to put 1 1/2 million indigent U.S. farm families on their feet.

Beanie Baldwin's new title is Area Director of Economic Operations in Italy. Last week he said he had no notion of: 1) the Italian language, 2) the approximate date he would sail, 3) the exact duties of his new job, 4) his staff.

> Cadaverous James M. ("Chink") Landis, on leave of absence as Dean of Harvard's Law School, ex-Chairman of SEC, ex-member of the Federal Trade Commission, now finally became ex-OCDirector (TIME, Aug. 16). Translated into Iraqi, his new title should roll impressively off the tongue: "American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East and principal American Civilian Representative at the Middle East Supply Center, with the personal rank of Minister." His job: to strengthen the U.S. management of the Middle East Supply Center, a joint U.S.-British project which routes civilian supplies to some 80 million friendly peoples in the area.

Chink Landis is no stranger to the East. Born in Tokyo of Presbyterian missionary parents, he saw the U.S. for the first time when he was 13. Said he last week: Americans have been paying too little attention to what the Islamic world thinks of them.

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