OPA Shift

Suspicious of "professors" in Government jobs, Congress laid down the law (TIME, June 28): hereafter, all OPA price fixers must have had actual business experience. OPA complied last week. A businessman stepped up and a professor stepped down. The big shift:

>Short, affable Businessman James F. Brownlee took over as deputy administrator in charge of price control. Able Businessman Brownlee (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) has receding brown hair, might easily pass for a professor. Said he: "The [professors] I've met around here are nice guys and pretty damned smart."

>Short, affable Professor Donald H. Wallace quit...

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