Happy Ending

"Now I ask you, how would you like to be able to go home . . . only once ... in two years?" The question was thrown at the President of the U.S. by eleven-year-old Johnny Katz. Harry Truman had just promoted Johnny's father to succeed Averell Harriman as coordinator of all European operations of the Marshall Plan. Despite Johnny's letter from Paris--written without his father's knowledge--Milton Katz took the job and ably filled it. "It's a case where the democracies for once were not too late with too little," Katz says. "We have accomplished a four-year program in three years."

Last week the Katzes, young & old, were able to reflect at last that hard work, diligence, and long-suffering would be rewarded in the end. Katz finished out his year and received a warm letter of commendation from the President. Then, after resigning as ambassador, he took a job with the Ford Foundation, run by his friend Paul Hoffman. As a result, he would go right on being a European expert--but this time at home in Pasadena, Calif., center of year-round marbles, and a place where Johnny's three-year-old brother, Peter, could be cured of the un-American habit of speaking better French than English.

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