Word: busters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Hecht Co., have kept their stores on friendly terms, swapping ideas about retailing trends. Last week the long friendship blossomed: May and Hecht announced a merger of the two chains and termed it "the biggest in retail history." The new company's president: energetic "Buster...
...business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast to coast. Buster still consults with his father but has run his own show since taking over as chief executive officer...
Basement Rise. Buster started his rise in the complaint department of May's Famous-Barr store in St. Louis during vacations from Dartmouth ('36), spent twp summers traveling through Russia, Manchuria and Japan as a photographic assistant to crack freelance photographer Julien Bryan. He worked his way through Famous-Barr's bargain basement, after a wartime stint as a Navy officer rose to vice president and manager of the company's two St. Louis stores before moving up to president...
...succession to complete the lopsided team victory. Senior Willie Thompson took second place with a time of 27 min., 21 sec. and sophomore Jed Fitzgerald, the other member of the Crimson's big three, finished third. From there on in, it was Jim Schlaeppi, Ed Martin, Mac Brown, Buster LaFrance and Dave Donaldson, in that order...
Schlaeppi was particularly impressive in finishing fourth as he ran the race with a badly bruised ankle, while Martin's fifth-place finish indicates an improvement in the health of a previously doubtful runner--which should bolster the varsity depth for the Yale meet. Sophomore Buster LaFrance's seventh place finish was the highest he has achieved in varsity competition...