Business: Certain-teed Shakeup

Last week the one & only man in the U. S. by the name of Baumhogger acquired a less unusual distinction. He became the third Montgomery Ward man to head a big building material company. The others are Ward's Chairman and President Sewell Lee A very, who is also President of U, S. Gypsum Co., and Johns-Manville's President Lewis H. Brown, who was once Ward's assistant general operating manager of all plants. Walter Gilbert Baumhogger resigned from Ward's last August "for no particular reason" after a successful six-year job as vice president in...

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