PERSONNEL: Young Men of the Year

The U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, which has a membership of 200,000 young men under 36, last week performed its annual rite of naming "America's Ten Outstanding Young Men of 1954." The ten:

¶Lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, 29, younger brother of Senator John Kennedy, and minority counsel of Joe McCarthy's Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, for assembling the facts which persuaded owners of 242 vessels not to trade with Iron Curtain countries (TIME, April 4, 1953.

¶Educator Dr. Frank A. Rose, 34, president of Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., for increasing the student body 100% and the endowment by 25%.

¶Major Charles E. Yeager, 31, first human to fly faster than the speed of sound (in a Bell XS-1), for his contributions as a test pilot (TIME, Dec. 21, 1953).

¶Archaeologist-Explorer Dr. Wendell Phillips, 33, of Concord, Calif., for his contributions to tropical medicine, paleontology and ethnology.

¶Notre Dame Football Coach Terence P. Brennan, 26, for his "inspiration to the youth of America."

¶Artist-Sculptor Arthur M. Kraft, 33, of Kansas City, Mo.

¶Polio Fighter Dr. William A. Spencer, 32, for establishing the first regional polio respiratory center in the U.S., at Houston.

¶Research Metallurgist J. Herbert Hollomon, 35, of General Electric's Schenectady plant, for some 25 discoveries about metals.

¶South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor Ernest F. Rollings, 32, for authoring the successful bill for a secret ballot and use of voting machines in his state.

¶Davis Cup Star Hamilton F. Richardson, 21, of Baton Rouge, for his tennis triumphs despite the handicap of diabetes (TIME, Oct. 25).