NEW ADMINISTRATION: Appointments

Named last week for important posts in the Eisenhower Administration:

JOSEPH MORRELL DODGE, 62, to be Director of the Budget. Detroit's distinguished banker, a stubborn anti-inflationist, an adviser on postwar monetary problems in Germany and Japan, Dodge has been Dwight Eisenhower's personal budget "observer" in Washington (TIME, Dec. 1). As budget director, he will sit in at presidential Cabinet meetings, report directly to Eisenhower.

THRUSTON BALLARD MORTON, 45, to be an Assistant Secretary of State. Tall, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 184 Ibs.), and a youthful-looking hustler, Morton is a seventh-generation Kentuckian from Louisville, a Yaleman (class of '29), and formerly head of his family's flour mill firm, Ballard & Ballard, which was bought out by Pillsbury Mills in 1951. In World War II he served with the Navy, a lieutenant commander on minesweepers and destroyers in the Pacific. He has had three postwar terms as a Republican Congressman, is an outspoken internationalist, led the pro-Eisenhower forces in Kentucky, was recommended for State by his good friend, Kentucky's new Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper.

HERMAN PHLEGER, 62, to be legal adviser to the Secretary of State. A prominent San Francisco lawyer (Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison), a graduate of the University of California and Harvard Law School, he is a director of numerous banking and business enterprises (American Trust, Union Oil. Moore Dry Dock, Matson Navigation, etc.), a trustee of Stanford. He served as a Navy lieutenant in World Wrar I, and as a legal expert with the U.S. occupation forces in post-World War II Germany.

To be Assistants to the Attorney General: WARREN OLNEY III, 48, a University of California law graduate and longtime associate of Governor Earl Warren, who picked him for chief counsel of the state's Special Crime Study Commission.

J. (for James) LEE RANKIN, 45, Nebraska Law School product, an old admirer of New York's Governor Tom Dewey, for whom he campaigned in Nebraska as far back as 1940.

WARREN E. (for Earl) BURGER, 45, graduate of the University of Minnesota and St. Paul College of Law, a leader of the pro-Eisenhower forces in last summer's famed convention credentials fight, an old crony of MSAdministrator-designate Harold Stassen.