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...Sears, Roebuck...
...game and a half. They have relied on speed (Maury Wills leads the league with 22 stolen bases) and the timely hitting of Tommy Davis. Their staff, which boasts Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Johnny Podres, Stan Williams, Larry Sherry and a trio of good rookies, looks fine, but Ed Roebuck has not been of much help in the bull-pen. It is hard to conceive of the Dodgers keeping pace with the Giants, a beautifully balanced squad with two real super-stars...
Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug full of booze, rock candy, rusty nails, and rusty hinges...
...weeks ago in Los Angeles, Austin Thomas Cushman, 60, vice president in charge of the West Coast operations of Sears, Roebuck & Co., got a career-capping phone call from Sears Chairman Charles H. Kellstadt. Kellstadt, who four months ago reached Sears's customary retirement age of 65, wanted to know whether Cushman would like to replace him in his $158,000-a-year job. It was quite a prospect: Sears, the giant Chicago-based retailing empire, counts one U.S. family in three among its customers. Last year it racked up sales of $4.5 billion on 140,000 items from...
Josiah Norton, Latin American Consultant for A.D. Little, Inc., emphasized the "need for social consciousness on the part of American industry and government," and cited the efforts of Sears Roebuck to use local materials and raise the economic level of Mexican towns where it has branches...