THE NEW ADMINISTRATION

Deputy Secretary of Defense

ROGER MARTIN KYES, 46, vice president of General Motors Corporation.

Family & Early Years: Born at East Palestine, Ohio, the son of a lawyer-farmer. Graduated (cum laude] from Harvard in 1928. He married Helen Jacoby; they have four daughters.

Career: Began as an assistant to the president of the Glenn L. Martin Co. in 1928, moved on to become successively assistant to the vice president of the Black & Decker Manufacturing Co. (electric tools), vice president of the Empire Plow Co., president of Harry Ferguson, Inc. (tractors and farm implements). Charles Erwin Wilson, who will be his boss at Defense, brought him to General Motors in 1948.

Politics: A Republican, but never active in politics, not even in 1952.

Personality: A husky (6 ft. 4 in., 222 Ibs.), tough executive. When G.M. decided to clean house at its truck & coach division in 1949, it gave Kyes the job with one broad order: "Make it profitable." Kyes grabbed the division by the scruff and shook. He transferred, fired and hired, inaugurated new sales techniques, developed a better diesel engine. Some people said he was ruthless, but he did the job.

Secretary of the Navy

ROBERT BERNERD ANDERSON, 42, lawyer and estate manager.

Family & Early Years: A native Texan, the son of poor farmers. When he went to college, he had only a pair of pants and a sweater, so he shared his roommate's good suit and later bought it. He dropped out of college to teach a country school, went back to graduate from the University of Texas law school in 1932 at the head of the class. While in school, he changed the spelling of his middle name because almost everyone he knew pronounced it "burr-nerd." He is married, has two sons.

Career: The day he graduated from law school he was elected to the state legislature (he had campaigned on weekends). Later, he held a wide assortment of state jobs--assistant attorney general, professor of law at the state university, tax commissioner and racing commissioner. In 1937 he was appointed attorney for the W. T. Waggoner estate, the richest in Texas, and became its general manager in 1941. The estate has grown steadily under his hand, now has more than 500,000 acres of ranch land, vast oil and livestock interests, and its own $1,000,000 headquarters building at Vernon, in north Texas. In 1949 Anderson turned down the $75,000-a-year presidency of the American Petroleum Institute. He is chairman of the Texas State Board of Education, deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Politics: A close friend of Texas Governor Allan Shivers, he was prominent Democrat for Eisenhower in this year's campaign.

Personality: Grey-haired and tall (6 ft. i in.), he walks with a slight limp (the result of a childhood attack of polio), which kept him out of the service in World War II. A Sunday school teacher (Methodist) and a Boy Scout worker, he is constantly in demand as a speaker. Said a friend: "He can give you the time of day and make it sound like a speech." The new Secretary of the Navy confesses that he has never been aboard a naval vessel, says: "The largest ship I was ever on in my life was some 15 or 16 years ago when I went on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico . . . That boat couldn't have been more than 30 or 40 ft. long . . ."

Secretary of the Army

ROBERT TEN BROECK STEVENS, 53, textile executive. Family & Early Years: His New England ancestry traces to Nathaniel Stevens, who started the family in the textile business by establishing a small woolen mill at North Andover, Mass, in 1813. Robert was born at Fanwood, N.J. (near his present home at South Plainfield), and was given his mother's Dutch maiden name as his middle name. He was a second lieutenant (field artillery) in World War I, graduated from Yale in 1921. He married Dorothy Goodwin Whitney; they have four sons and a daughter. One son, William, 21, is an army private in Europe.

Career: Starting as a salesman for the family firm in 1921, he took over as president when his father died in 1929, moved up to board chairman in 1945.

His company (J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., with headquarters in New York City) is one of the biggest in the business, made $44 million before taxes in 1951.

He is a director of General Electric, General Foods, New York Telephone Co. and other corporations, is chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank's board. In World War II, he was a colonel in the Quartermaster Corps in charge of all textile procurement.

Politics: A Republican, Stevens has never been active in politics, never met Dwight Eisenhower until Ike offered him the job at a 15-minute conference last week. He does know Defense Secretary-designate Charles E. Wilson, assumes that Wilson is the man who picked him.

Personality: A trim, grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked, easy-smiling man who, his assistant says, "is always wound up like a mainspring."

Secretary of the Air Force

HAROLD ELSTNER TALBOTT, 64, New York capitalist.

Family & Early Years: One of nine children of a Dayton, Ohio construction magnate, he became vice president of his father's firm after graduating from Yale in 1910. During World War I, he was in the Army Aviation Section. He married Margaret Thayer; they have two sons and two daughters, maintain an apartment in Manhattan. His 45-room country home on Long Island burned down last summer.

Career: An aircraft industry pioneer, he built a wind tunnel near Dayton in 1916 for some Wright Brothers experiments, was president of the Dayton Wright Airplane Co. in 1916-20, later (1931-32) was chairman of North American Aviation, Inc.'s board.

Some 25 years ago, he moved to New York and formed H. E. Talbott & Co., as an instrument to invest his fortune. One of the original investors in the Chrysler Corp., he is now a director of Chrysler and of other corporations. He was director of aircraft production for the War Production Board in 1942-43.

Politics: He has been a G.O.P. money raiser for nearly 20 years. A fervent Willkie man in 1940, he was Dewey's pre-convention and post-convention fund gatherer in 1948, played the same role for Ike this year.

Personality: A rugged, energetic type whose hair is still black, he is an expert horseman, was one of the country's leading polo players in the early '30's (seven goals). For many years he kept a stable of fine thoroughbreds (mostly steeplechasers). He likes to hunt big game, once bagged a two-horned rhinoceros in Africa. A rabid baseball fan, he shares a Yankee Stadium box with Herbert Brownell, the Attorney General-designate.

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