The first two lame ducks from the old 81st Congress limped down off Capitol Hill last week and slid into jobs that fitted them as neatly as their pinfeathers.
Elbert D. Thomas, 67, Utah's kindly, scholarly Democratic Senator for the past 18 years, took a $17,500-a-year job as the first civilian High Commissioner of the Pacific islands taken from Japan in World War II (and since governed by the Navy). A lifetime student of the Pacific area and onetime Mormon missionary in Japan (1907-12), Thomas helped lay out the U.N. formula for postwar trusteeships at Montreal in 1946.
Vito Marcantonio, Manhattan's shrill-tongued voice...
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