The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-12
100 DAY REGIME
SHOWS SIGNS OF INSECURITY
BY sIcRiD ARNE
APP NEWSFEATURES Writer


met ]. Hughes has the most
illustrious editor in the country.
The man who blue pencils his
work is President Eisenhower.
Hes an excellent editor, y
Hughes tells you as he stokes his
pipe. He knows just what he wants
to say, and he knows the exact
words to say it."
In a quiet office overlooking the
White House front lawn, Hughes
turns out the Presidents speeches,
messages to Congressman, procla-
nations. Other presidents have had
two or three writer's and on &C.
casion a whole team. Hughes is
the youngest man on Eisenhower S
White House staff-he's Sand the
only writer.
He works from 8 to s unless
there's a special job on hand. Then
he may work round the clock or
week end. The foreign policy
speech which the President made
to editors is an example.
"I've forgotten how many con-
ferences we had on that" says
Hughes. 1T was confidential until
released. So I either carried my
draft home for work. or IL was
locked up"
Hughes is a serious person with
a deep voice, a high forehead and
black hair already touched with
gray. He was born in Newark,
N. j., took Princeton degree in
1914 and Columbia University
degree in political science in 1912.
He has had concentrated assign
ments in the foreign affairs he
must now write about. In 1912 '46
he was with military intelligence in
Madrid. Out Of that experience he
wrote two successful books.
In 1916 he went to Rome for
the magazine Life and Time. In
1913 he shifted to Berlin and re.
turned in 1949 to the New York
offices.
Another Time-Life graduate on
the Eisenhower staff is tall, rangy
C. D. Jackson, the link between
the President and all the phases
of the cold war.
Jackson, well over six feet, ar
riyes at work in a little foreign
car that looks like a toy.
He gained wide experience in
World War II in the type of work
he now heads.
Jackson is 81 and married. He
graduated from Princeton in 1924
and after some years Of running
his family's importing business
joined Time as assistant to the
president.
The man who has to be certain
that what the President does is
in accord with the law of the
land is a Newark, N. j., lawyer
Bernard M. Stanley. He's 40, with
thick gray hair and a constant
smile. His home at Barnardsville,
N. j., was bought with five chill
dren.-three boys and two girls--in
mind, They raise much of what
they eat.
Stanley is responsible for finding
one spot In which the President
can cut down on some of the
routine chores of his office. The
RATS of papers he has TO take in
for EiSenhower'S signature includ-
ed many reassiguments OF naval
officers. Eisenhower wondered out
loud whether he had to sign them.
Stanley dug back through law
books to find that the President
could issue an order transferring
the signing to the Chief of Naval
operations. Stanley is hunting other
such possibilities.
Maxwell Rabb, Al, Is Boston
lawyer who takes some of the load
off the shoulders of Sherman
Adams, assistant to the President.
Rabh arrives at the White House
at T:30 a. M, to dig out facts
which Adams needs for the hriefing
an hour later.
rabbi was legal consultant TO the
late James Forrestal. when For
restal was secretary Of the Navy,