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His game, in all. ranged in the gos, but the shortcomings (his short game, mainly) were unimportant compared with the easy relaxation of his style, the exchange of chuckles with Jokester George Allen—much of it at the expense of Ambassador to London John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who owns an estate next door to Humphrey's Milestone. Once, when Golfing Companion Whitney found himself in the woods, Ike and the others joshed him: "There's our representative at the Court of St. James's in the woods."
World affairs were not wholly abandoned. At least twice a day there were phone talks with Secretary Dulles on the Middle East impasse. Then Dulles and U.N. Ambassador Lodge flew down for their face-to-face conference. Ike also kept posted on the East Coast's longshoremen's strike and on the perilous passage of the Eisenhower Doctrine through the Senate. But behind the serious business there was always the comforting thought that the holiday would last one more week.
Last week the President also:
¶ Snapped up the resignation of Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Tripp Ross, whose wife was president of a clothing company that won an Army contract for 249,000 pairs of trousers while Ross was holding down his Pentagon job. Ross's resignation came right after he finished testifying before Arkansas Democrat John McClellan's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. McClellan's cryptic verdict: there was no conflict "as far as criminality was concerned," but "as to whether there were improprieties, that is a matter of judgment and opinion."
¶ Accepted the resignation of capable Civil Service Commission Chairman Philip Young, 46, who declined to tie himself to a new six-year term. Possible new assignment for Young, onetime head of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, and an old friend of Ike's: U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands.
¶ Announced the resignation of former Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Correspondent Carl W. McCardle, who for four years served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, and received one of Ike's warmest sorry-to-see-you-go letters.