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Emmett G. Solomon, the courtly 64-year-old chairman of San Francisco's Crocker Bank, presented his board with a hand-picked successor last August. Not surprisingly, the candidate was Lester Peacock, 43, the bank's president and a fellow traditionalist, who seemed particularly interested in bankerly decorum. Peacock once remarked to his associates: "No gentleman ever wears brown shoes." The bank's board turned Peacock down flat because Crocker's pin-stripe conservatism had simply not been paying off. While more innovative, bolder California banks were gaining ground, the earnings of Crocker, the nation...
Peacock retired to his ranch in Texas, and Chairman Solomon went headhunting. Last week, with the board's enthusiastic approval, he introduced his catch-a big one. Thomas R. Wilcox, 57, former vice chairman of New York's First National City Bank, will succeed Solomon as Crocker's chairman and chief executive on April...
...Wriston in a competition for chairmanship of the U.S.'s second largest bank. Not being No. 1 cramped him, though, and Wilcox quit in 1971 to join the investment firm of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co. There, says a friend, he turned down "about 50,000 job offers." Then Crocker offered him an irresistible challenge. Gauging Wilcox's reputation, one Crocker banker looks ahead and says, "A lot of people here will have to start working hard again...
Parkinson avenged Aiken's earlier save on a breakaway by notching a token third goal for Penn late in the period. But it was a case of too little, too late for Bob Crocker's 1-2 Quakers...
Guarding the nets has also been a common problem to the two squads, as both Harvard and Penn graduated their regular goaltenders. Crocker has gone with junior Bernie Huot, who had an 8.4 goals-against average while playing 36 varsity minutes last season behind Tim McQuiston and sophomore Tony Ciresi. Ciresi as a freshman compiled a 4.4 goals-against average while playing 980 minutes...