Salomon Bros. Picks New Mergers and Acquisitions Head

Salomon Bros. Inc. has hired Wesley C. Walraven from CS First Boston to head its West Coast mergers and acquisitions department.

Walraven, 33, will be a director at the firm and will be based in Los Angeles.

In nine years at First Boston, Walraven was head of the firm’s M&A; business development group in New York and also worked in Hong Kong and London.

* Earl S. Washington has been appointed senior vice president of corporate communications for Rockwell International Corp., a Seal Beach high-technology company. Washington, who was also elected a corporate officer by the board of directors, will report to Rockwell Chairman and Chief Executive Donald R. Beall. Washington succeeds Richard R. Mau, who will remain with the company as senior vice president and a member of Rockwell’s Senior Management Council until his planned retirement in January. Washington, previously vice president, advertising and public relations, joined Rockwell in 1969.

* James R. Worms has been named a managing director of William E. Simon & Sons, a private investment and merchant banking firm. Worms has also been appointed president of William E. Simon & Sons Realty. He will be based in Los Angeles with responsibility for global real estate investment activities.