Milton's Choice

When Milton S. Eisenhower abruptly resigned as president of Pennsylvania State University (TIME, June 18), he announced that he would make no decision about his future "until I've had a long fishing vacation." This week the vacation was over. And of the many offers he had received, Milton Eisenhower settled on the most prestigious: president of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University.

For Johns Hopkins, it was the end of a long search. After President Detlev Bronk quit in 1953 to head the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, kindly Mathematician Lowell Reed came out of retirement at 67 to serve only until the university could find a younger man. Besides its prestige, Johns Hopkins had a special attraction for Dwight Eisenhower's brother: Baltimore is only a 45-minute train ride from Washington. "I shall come," said Milton Eisenhower to his new trustees, "with enthusiasm."

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