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...plumpish, graying Washington lawyer who is fond of Dewar's Scotch and Viceroy cigarettes, Sears, 36, was born in Syracuse, N.Y., schooled at Notre Dame and Georgetown University Law Center. He got his start in politics as a 26-year-old whiz kid preparing for Nixon's 1968 campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sears: reagan's High-Roller | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

FAVORITE DRINK: The Franklin Fizzie (one part Dewar's Scotch, one part Hood milk, a dash of Quaker oatmeal, a cherry fizzie and a scoop of scrapple...

Author: By William E. Stedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 10/31/1975 | See Source »

...firm hit its stride in the discount merchandise field. Today it is the third largest and fastest-growing ma jor retail operation in the nation. Sales in 1973 amounted to $4.63 billion and in creased 24% hi the first quarter of 1974. Kresge Chairman and Chief Executive Robert E. Dewar wants to lift sales to $12 billion by 1980 and leave current front runners J.C. Penney (No. 2) and Sears, Roebuck (No. 1) far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peak Condition | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...Dewar, 51, has been in training for the challenge since 1960, when then President Harry Cunningham plucked him out of the company's legal department and made him his personal assistant. The son of a factory foreman, Dewar grew up in small-town Michigan and joined Kresge in 1949. He became president in 1970 and chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peak Condition | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...well schooled in the company's basic strategy and has continued to establish K Marts, which account for about 90% of the firm's annual volume, at the accelerated pace of 100 or more a year. Earlier this month the company opened its 700th discount store. Dewar has recently be gun to extend the chain into smaller cities with populations between 10,000 and 30,000. He has chosen not to vary the formula that Cunningham laid down in the early '60s - namely growth and then more growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Peak Condition | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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