The President's Week

When reporters crowded in for his press conference last week, President Truman looked somewhat tired. But he was not too tired to live up to a promise made shortly after he took office: that he would hold a news conference only when he had news to impart. In 14 fast & furious minutes, the President:

P: Announced that the long-heralded Big Three meeting would definitely take place within 40 days. Place: unannounced. Most dramatic possibility: Berlin.

P: Made three top appointments: General Omar N. Bradley to head the Veterans Administration (see above); 38-year-old Navy Lieut. Paul M. Herzog, former chairman of the New York Labor Relations Board, to succeed ailing Harry A. Millis as NLRBoss; quiet, businesslike John B. ("Jack") Hutson, onetime head of Commodity Credit Corp., to replace Grover B. Hill as Under Secretary of Agriculture. P: Said he would not hesitate to ration civilian travel if the huge redeployment job makes it necessary.

P: Said the Little Steel formula would stand--at least until prices and wages have been studied further. This was the first hint to organized labor that there might be a break in Little Steel before fall.

P: Jumped into the squabble over Congressional salaries by proposing that they be raised from $10,000 to perhaps $25,000 a year.

A summer bachelor since his wife and daughter went back to Independence, Harry Truman took two nights off for stag parties. He attended a dinner for his old friend Leslie L. ("Biff") Biffle, secretary of the Senate, and went out to Washington's swank Burning Tree Country Club, where he was initiated as the club's newest member. Over the weekend he cruised down the Potomac.

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