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Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale on the job."
-To succeed Lilienthal in TVA the President made another strictly nonpolitical appointment: Gordon Rufus Clapp, old TVAer, general manager since 1939.