New Look in Aides

Harry Truman had two major generals and a rear admiral (average age: 51) as his White House military aides. Ike's aides, named last week, are younger men (average age: 37) of lower rank: a commander, a lieutenant colonel, a major.

As his naval aide, Ike picked one of the Navy's best young officers: Commander Edward L. Beach, 34. Ned Beach was a wartime submarine hero (Navy Cross, Silver Star, etc.), later wrote Submarine!, the liveliest and most authentic account of underseas combat to come out of World War II. He began his sub service aboard the renowned Trigger, which sank at least 27 Japanese ships, wound up the war with his own command. As postwar skipper of the Amberjack, he made himself a terror to carrier admirals during war games. His favorite trick was to sneak up on a carrier, photograph her through his periscope, mail the admiral a print with "Regards from Ned Beach and the Amberjack."

The new Air Force aide is an old acquaintance of Ike's: Major William G. Draper, 32, wartime transport pilot who in early 1951 was assigned as personal pilot to the SHAPE commander. At Ike's request, Draper was summoned from Europe in December to fly the President-elect and his party to Korea. In his new job, Draper will double as pilot of the presidential DC-6, the Independence.

Ike's Army aide is mustachioed Lieut. Colonel Robert L. Schulz, 45, no Ned Beach, but also no Harry Vaughan. Traffic Expert Schulz spent the war years as a Washington transportation officer, getting plane and train reservations for Army brass. After Ike came home in 1945, Schulz was assigned the job of seeing to the general's transportation needs. Colonel Schulz made himself so useful that Ike has kept him around ever since.

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