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...taken the teams a record 36 innings to settle two successive games.* After that glorious comeback, the limp Chicago fans expected their heroes to sweep the fourth game for an even break. The White Sox led, 2-1, going into the ninth, but lost, 3-2. The buster-upper: Clyde Vollmer. It was the sixth time in seven games that he had knocked in the winning...
...Louis, the employee newspaper of the Famous-Barr department store broke the news under a notable headline: BUSTER BECOMES OUR PRESIDENT. No further identification was necessary for the employees. Everyone in the store, chief link in the May department-store chain, knows that "Buster" is Morton David May, 36, son of the chain's longtime President Morton J. May and grandson of one of the founders...
...class of 1936, he went to work as an $18-a-week stock boy at Famous-Barr, spent his spare time playing in tennis tournaments in Missouri, where he was a top-ranked player, started a modern art collection now considered one of St. Louis' best. Gradually, Buster May rose to assistant buyer and assistant merchandise manager in Famous-Barr's basement...
...Company. Three years ago he became manager of Famous-Barr's $3,000,000 new store in suburban Clayton, and last year the $100,000-a-year general manager of the company's two St. Louis stores. As president of the 24-store, nine-city May chain, Buster will boss an operation that last year had record sales of $417 million. Said father Morton J. May, 67, who is stepping up to chairman: "He likes it, he's interested in it, he wants to carry on. What could make me happier...
Besides hunting Chinese Reds and Korean snails, Buster serves as adviser to his outfit on all matters zoological. He has taught them to recognise a poisonous snake or two, and during the pre-battle lull he gave them the word on swimming in the Han: little danger of schistosomiasis because oncomelania prefer narrow, shaded streams. A good chance of picking up paragonimiasis because the broad, open river might have Paragonimus westermani...