After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission.
Henry's knowledge of broadcasting is still in its developmental stages. Before October, he was an attorney in Memphis doing general trial work. But he took to his new role as commissioner readily and soon made a speech in which he coiled rattled, and suggested...
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