For many months, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson had been wanting to retire. The reason was simply that he was gradually going broke on his $12,000-a-year salary, which failed to cover entertaining on the scale required by his job. When Secretary Marshall took over, Acheson had consented to stay on only with the promise that he would be able to return to his law practice by July 1.
Last week Washington learned that Dean Acheson really meant what he had said. Those in the know were sure that his successor would be lean, articulate, 51-year-old Robert A. Lovett, onetime Assistant...
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