ARMED FORCES: Forrestal's Lieutenants

By presidential order last week, Defense Secretary James Forrestal took command of the three top lieutenants who will administer the service arms of his new, unified defense establishment. As expected, they were:

Secretary of the Army, hulking, even-tempered Kenneth C. Royall, former Under Secretary of War and Secretary since Bob Patterson's resignation last month, a onetime North Carolina lawyer, wartime brigadier general in the Army Service Forces, whose ambition is to run for governor of North Carolina.

Secretary of the Navy, New Hampshire's John L. Sullivan, well-traveled Under Secretary of the Navy, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a faithful Democrat and good friend of National Chairman Bob Hannegan.

Secretary of the Air Forces, Socialite-Industrialist W. Stuart Symington, who left the presidency of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., became Surplus Property Administrator, then a top-notch Assistant Secretary of War for Air, the aggressive, Yale-trained son-in-law of New York's defense-conscious Representative James W. Wadsworth.