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...more than half a century, Macy's New York, the world's biggest department store, has never had a boss who was not a member of the owning Straus family. When Richard Weil Jr., a Straus grandson, stepped down from the presidency two months ago (TIME, March 24), the job was taken on by his first cousin, Jack Straus, who also runs the entire Macy chain. This week the family tradition was broken. Jack Straus announced a new boss for the store: 44-year-old Wheelock Hayward Bingham, who for seven years has run Macy...
...Navy lieutenant in World War II, Bingham was picked to help organize the supply end of naval aviation. He did such a bang-up job that he won a commendation ribbon and was made a captain at 36. Then, in 1945, he got a call from Jack Straus: Macy's was expanding, had just bought San Francisco's old O'Connor, Moffat & Co., and Straus wanted Bingham...
Eliot House clinched the Straus Trophy yesterday by defeating Kirkland in the playoff tennis match. The Elephants crushed the Deacons 6 to 1 and in so doing picked up the 15 points they needed to put them out of reach of Kirkland the only other contender...
...House competition at the end of the fall season also won House crew this spring and placed second in House track. Before yesterday's playoff, Leverett, Kirkland and Eliot were tied for first in tennis, but the Deacons and Elephants were the only two in contention for the Straus Trophy...
Complete and final standings in the Straus Trophy race will be published in next week's CRIMSONS...