Bright Stars

Harry Truman's nomination of Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther to be Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff (TIME, Jan. 1) touched off a wholesale changing of name plates on Army office doors last week. Among the changes:

CHARLES L. BOLTE, 55, ground-forces specialist, to Gruenther's old job of Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans; three stars.

MAXWELL D. TAYLOR, 49, Berlin's crisp commandant and an expert on airborne planning, to take Bolte's staff job in the Pentagon; rank (two stars) unchanged.

LEMUEL MATHEWSON, 51, artillery and airborne expert, to Berlin to take over from Taylor; two stars.

JOHN WILLIAM LEONARD, 61, World War II commander of the 9th Armored Division at Bastogne and now commander of V Corps at Fort Bragg, N.C.; three stars, command unchanged.

EDWARD ("Sic-'em Ned") ALMOND, 58, commander of X Corps in Korea, which fought its way free of disaster; three stars.

JOHN B. COULTER, 59, commander of IX Corps; three stars.

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