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...Wise will represent the Crimson in the jump, with John Hart and Neil Dixon in cross-country. Captain John Houser will enter the combined slalom and downhill events...
...manager for Ward, Wood spent the first few months merely asking questions. "It was an uncomfortably long time," he says, "before I ran into a young man who could answer straightaway, just like that, and with figures to support his answers." The young man was 24-year-old Theodore Houser, a merchandise controller; Wood made him his assistant. As a team, Wood and Houser concentrated on the tire division. In five years, sales increased tenfold, to twice as many tires as Sears, their archcompetitor...
...Fowler McConnell, 57, a University of Chicago graduate who joined Sears as a stock boy in 1916, worked his way up through both the mail-order and retail ends of the business, and has been president since 1946; and 2) Merchandising Vice President Theodore Houser, now 57, Wood's old assistant at Montgomery Ward, who moved to Sears when Wood became president and is regarded by him as "the greatest master of mass merchandising...
...cross country race, won on Saturday by Maine, sophomore Neil Dixon led the Crimson by placing fifth. He was followed by John Hart and Jim Lawson, who finished seventh and 12th. Captain John Houser finished 11th in the slalom, and Dwight Black placed seventh in the downhill...
Although the team did not show its best in these three events, it was in the jump that the Crimson did its poorest. With Tim Wise placing 11th, Houser 19th, Dixon 20th, and Hart, who fell on two attempts, 29th, the team finished in sixth place in this event...