New Faces

P: Fred Clark Scribner, 49, was nominated by President Eisenhower to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for general administration, filling a post that has been vacant since H. Chapman Rose left in early 1956. Born in Bath, Me., Scribner was educated at Dartmouth ('30) and Harvard Law School ('33); he first practiced law in Portland, later entered politics (national G.O.P. committeeman 1948-56) and served as vice president of Maine's Bates Manufacturing Co. until 1955, when he went to Washington as general counsel of the Treasury. Last February he was named one of four assistant secretaries, will now boss Internal Revenue, customs, the Secret Service, the Coast Guard and narcotics control.

P: Major General David Hodge Baker, 49, will take over as president and chief executive officer of Capital Airlines, succeeding J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 50, who moves up to chairman of the board after ten years in the president's seat. Born in Paterson, N.J., Old Pilot Baker graduated from West Point ('30) and Harvard Business School ('41), was deputy commander of the Ninth Air Force Service Command in England during World War II, since 1953 has been in charge of all Air Force procurement and production. Capital's directors hope Baker's experience will help cure the line's financial stall (caused in some measure by Old Pilot Carmichael's overambitious purchase of 52 Viscount turboprops), push it back up to cruising speed.

P: Charles E. (forEmil) Eble, 56, moves into the presidency of New York's Consolidated Edison Co., one of the nation's biggest gas and electric companies (2,755,000 customers, $523 million annual revenue), replacing Harland C. Forbes, 59, who moves up to board chairman. A self-taught financial expert, whose formal schooling ended after two years of high school, Eble joined Con Ed in 1916 as a "corridor boy," sandwiching in two years of correspondence courses from the Alexander Hamilton Institute between chores. Shifted to the accounting department, Eble was an assistant comptroller in 1935, became a vice president four years ago. An important target as president: financing a $650 million expansion program to add 1,000,000 kw. to Con Ed's 3,700,000-kw. generating capacity by 1960 to keep pace with New York City's growing power demands.

P: Virgil M. Exner, 47, Chrysler's ace designer, got a fitting reward for the long, low, jet-finned 1957 models that won back the company's traditional 20% share of the auto market this year: a corporate vice-presidency, giving Exner the same high rank as his competitors, General Motors' Styling Director Harley Earl and Ford's George Walker.

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