PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Aug. 15, 1955

PERSONNEL Changes of the Week ¶Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 56, who disposed of his interest in J. P. Stevens & Co. before he took office as Secretary of the Army, was re-elected its president two weeks after leaving the Pentagon. He replaces Joseph H. Sutherland, who was moved up to the newly created post of vice chairman. Yaleman Stevens came into the family textile business as a salesman, became president by the time he was 30, built the company into the nation's No. 2 textile manufacturer, earned a reputation as an intelligent, progressive businessman. As a Cabinet officer, he became familiar...

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