braintruster

Released from the Yankees, he served as braintruster for the Chicago Cubs, quit the Cubs to join the Dodgers, quit the Dodgers to join the Giants�all within 14 months.

Last but far from least is liberal Washington Economist Robert R. Nathan, 59, a onetime Roosevelt braintruster.

With his leave of absence expiring, Braintruster Schlesinger resigned his lifetime Harvard chair to cast his lot with Washington instead of Cambridge.

The civilian at whom most fingers point is Task Force Chief Berle, onetime Columbia University law professor and F.D.R.'s chief Latin American braintruster from 1938 to 1944.

A growing favorite in Pravda, official handicap sheet of the Soviet Communist hierarchy: mop-haired Mikhail A. Suslov, 58, party braintruster and veteran member of the Presidium.