To succeed former M.I.T. President Karl Compton as chairman of the Defense Department's Research and Development Bureau, President Truman last week picked another M.I.T. man and longtime associate of ailing ex-Chairman Compton. His choice: 49-year-old William Webster, a vice president of the New England Electric System.
More an administrator than a scientist, Nominee Webster is an old hand at controlling the explosive combination of scientists in government. A graduate of the Naval Academy (1920), he took a master's degree at M.I.T., served six years in the Naval Construction Corps before he resigned to work for the New England Power Association. Later he...
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