War: NEW BOSS IN KOREA

Succeeding General Ridgway this week in Tokyo: General Mark Wayne Clark, U.S. Army.

Titles: In his new three-hat job, Clark becomes Supreme Commander of the United Nations Command, which means leadership of the multi-national army in Korea; head of the U.S. Far East Command, covering all U.S. forces — land, sea and air— in Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea; and chief of the U.S. Security Forces in Japan itself.

Born: May 1, 1896, at an Army post in Madison Bar racks, N.Y. Clark's father—Colonel Charles C. Clark—was, like Ridgway's father, a Regular Army officer.

Education: High school at Highland Park, Ill.; at West Point...