Changes of the Week

To fill a pair of important Government posts, President Eisenhower last week nominated two experienced administrators, who must still win Senate confirmation but already have wide approval from the businessmen with whom they will deal. The choices:

P:Frederick W. Ford, 47, was nominated to a seven-year term on the Federal Communications Commission, replacing retiring Chairman George C. McConnaughey, 61, as a member of the commission, but not in the top job. The senior post goes to John C. Doerfer, 52, a tough, middle-roading lawyer who has been an FCCommissioner since 1953. A West Virginian born and educated (West Virginia University, '31), Lawyer Ford first went to work for FCC in 1947 after a stint at the Office of Price Administration, within six years worked up from hearing commissioner to chief of the hearing division of the Broadcast Bureau, before shifting to the Justice Department in 1953, where he became first assistant to the Deputy Attorney General.

P:Edward N. Gadsby, 57, was nominated to fill out the remaining term (until June 5, 1958) of Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman J. Sinclair Armstrong, who has resigned to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for finance. A conservative New Englander (Amherst, '23), SECommissioner Gadsby worked for New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. before turning to the law (New York University, '28) and a ten-year berth in the Manhattan law firm of Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern. Moving back to New England, he practiced privately in North Adams, Mass. until 1947, when he became a Massachusetts commissioner of public utilities. Though technically only an interim appointee, Gadsby is expected to serve a full term and shortly get the nod as SEC's new chairman.

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