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Heinl Radio News Service
2/20/46
was reported as saying that conceivably he might return to the Com¬ mission after the OPA assignment was finished but that he had no plans for doing so. And, as before mentioned, there were reports that Mr, Porter might go higher and even land a Cabinet appointment if he is successful with the OPA, but as it is, he is now pretty much in the position of an acrobat flying through the air from one trapeze to another. If he misses, he will have a net under him in the shape of his old Job at the FCC.
A political break for Porter might be the illness of Postmaster General Bob Hannegan which, if reports are true, may put him out of commission for sometime. One rumor has it that Mr. Hannegan has had 10 teeth extracted and may have to spend consider¬ able time in Florida recuperating. Hannegan as is well known, had much to do with nominating President Truman for Vice-President.
Paul Porter was Hannegan's right-hand man in the campaign in charge of publicity and is known to be very close to Mr. Truman, and with Hannegan away may be asked to assume some of the latter's political burdens and thus become even closer to the President, or perhaps succeed Mr. Hannegan as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee if thelatter's illness prevents him from carrying on.
As predicted in this service sometime ago (December 19), if Mr. Porter left tne Commission, his successor would be the promis¬ ing youngster, Charles R. Denny, Jr., age 33. Mr. Denny was in Savannah holding broadcasting station hearings when the word was flasned to him that the President had appointed Paul Porter Administrator of OPA and had named Mr. Denny as Acting Chairman of tne FCC, Mr. Denny, however, didn't seem to get unduly excited about it. In fact, didn't even cut short the hearings and hit it back for Washington as some people might have done.
At the most, he seemed to regard the appointment as temporare (though there was some talk that it might be putting the young man on trial to see if he was heavy enough to hold down the job).
He appeared to regard it as a foregone conclusion that Mr. Porter would be back. In fact, it seemed to be the opinion of many that Chairman Paul Porter' s picture would continue to hang over the raantlepie ce at the FCC for sometime to come and that he would con¬ tinue to have quite a little to say about the goings on there.
President Truman formally nominated Mr. Porter to be Administrator of OPA Monday. The nomination is expected to be acted upon within the next few days by the Senate. It was still the understanding at this writing that Mr. Truman would not fill the vacancy caused by the absence of Mr. Porter. This would reduce the Commission to six members. —
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Praise for Petrillo apparently isn't heard often but form¬ er Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who lately has been lauding radio witn particular enthusiapilg), went to the bat for the Union leader for "his protection of musicians". The occasion was the fiftieth birth¬ day of Joseph Rosenberg, President of New York Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians.
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