Changes of the Week

Captain Charles R. Titus, 59, and John L. Titus, his 28-year-old son, made their first and last commercial flight together as pilot and copilot of a Pan American World Airways flight from New York to London. Captain Titus, who will retire in August to serve as an International Co operation Administration technical adviser in Turkey, has logged 20,000 hours in transatlantic flight since joining Pan American in 1932, set an airline record of eight hours, 55 minutes for the New York-London flight in 1949.

Warren Lee Pierson, 58, succeeded Belgium's Camille Gutt as president of the International Chamber of Commerce. Globe-hopping board chairman of Trans World Airlines since 1947, Pierson has been an effective advocate of lower tariffs and reciprocal trade as head of the ICC's United States Council. He was a World War I artillery lieutenant in France, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1922, served the Government as RFC counsel (1933)) president of the Export-Import Bank (1936-44), and U.S. delegate to the 1951-52 conference on Germany's $6 billion foreign debt. As 17th (and fifth American) president of the ICC, Internationalist Pierson will push for economic integration of Western Europe.

William Lee Sims II, 58, was elected president of Colgate-Palmolive Co., succeeding Joseph H. McConnell, 49, who resigned (TIME, May 16) and joined Reynolds Metals Co. as general counsel and director. Alabama-born, Sims went to work for Colgate as a salesman in 1924, started the company's Italian subsidiary in 1927, three years later took charge of Colgate's ten European subsidiaries. In 1940 Sims was named assistant to President E. H. Little (now board chairman and chief executive officer), later headed OPA's chemical and drug unit in Washington, became a Colgate vice president in 1945, and in 1953 first president of the newly organized Colgate-Palmolive International, which in 1954 sold $162,500,000 worth of goods abroad. New International president is Ralph A. Hart, who has been its vice president in charge of European sales and advertising.

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