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...VIRGIL C. KREBS...
Harold L Pearson, 52, became president of Air Transport Association, the organization of U.S. scheduled airlines. Kansas-born "Pete" Pearson spent 22 years in chain-store merchandising at J. C. Penney and Sears, Roebuck, then joined Montgomery Ward, where he was named Ward controller in 1934. Pearson went on to become vice president, treasurer, and Avery's close confidant. In 1945, like dozens of other Ward executives, Pearson "escaped," as he put it. Later, Pearson went to Washington, became Deputy Under Secretary of the Army in 1952, Assistant Director of the Budget Bureau...
...Joseph C. Kracht, 50, was named vice president and retail manager of Montgomery Ward (starting Aug. 1), the company's first retail veep in three years. A native New Yorker and Columbia University graduate, Kracht spent 13 years with Ward, then quit in 1950 to become a vice president at W. R. Grace & Co. and then to the same spot with Fedway Stores, a subsidiary of Federated Department Stores...
Peculiar Pattern. Tornado clouds are unpleasant subjects to study at close range, and so they are not completely understood. But practical information about them has accumulated. In 1948. Meteorologists Ernest J. Fawbush and Robert C. Miller were on duty at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, when a tornado swept across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread...
...Arthur, 41-members of the small band of World War II pilots who have made good with their airlines. Both won their wings in the Navy, later served in the Air Transport Command, where they saw a bright future for peacetime cargo flying. Starting off with two surplus C-54s in 1947, they quickly built up a fleet of twelve DC-4s and a business of more than $10 million flying across the Pacific during the Korean War (TIME, July...