Robert Anderson Magowan, 51, was named to the newly created post of chairman of the board of Safeway Stores, Inc., the nation's second (to A. & P.) largest grocery chain (1954 sales: $1.6 billion).
He will succeed retiring President Lingan A. Warren, 66, as chief executive officer.
A native of Chester, Pa., Magowan started selling handbags at R. H. Macy & Co. after graduating from Harvard, became merchandise manager of inexpensive, ready-to-wear departments at 31. He quit to become a vice president of N. W. Ayer, left the agency to go to Safeway, in which his father-in-law, Charles Merrill, head of...
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