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...upper reaches of U.S. business last week, it seemed to be moving day. All told, seven major corporations named new senior executives. Most drastic shift was the appointment of Robert E. Brooker, 56, as president of Montgomery Ward-a company whose top executives have been more mobile than most. In 24 years Ward has run through eight presidents; the last, Paul M. Hammaker, went out only four months ago amid stockholder yelps over poor earnings...
...Brooker may prove just what Ward needs. At least, he was trained in the right place: Sears, Roebuck & Co., where he rose to a vice-presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head the Sears-affiliated Whirlpool Corp. But his appointment helped kill the enthusiasm of Sol Cantor, president of New York's discount-minded Interstate Department Stores, for a previously planned merger with Ward. Cantor and other Interstate brass were miffed when Ward's Chairman John Barr did not check the selection of Brooker with them...
...BROOKER L. MASTERS...
...Dougan, M. B. Finkelstein, E. E. Ford, Jr., L. T. Furth, H. L. Hart, C. T. Horsky, E. H. Kent, R. H. Lindman, C. H. Livengood, Jr., R. P. Loftus, David Riesman, Jr., W. C. Roper, Jr., B. R. Shute. The third-year men elected are B. D. Brooker, H. B. Gross, and Albert Soladar...
Unaffected by the wind was the Western Conference shot put record (49 ft. 5½ in.) made by Minnesota's Clarence Munn. Two Negroes named Brooks won titles in the field. Michigan's Negro Brooker Brooks threw a discus 148 ft. 1¼ in., beating Illinois' giant Frank Purma, Kansas farmboy who has done 154 ft. 1½ in. Chicago's Negro John Brooks, a 142-lb. student of political science, crowded the Conference record broad jump, made by another Negro Dehart Hubbard, with a predicted jump...