Word: bumpus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threat of Piracy. Branching out in new directions, Maxwell this year bought Britain's largest typesetting firm, the famed London bookshop of John and Edward Bumpus, and a subscription-book subsidiary of Press Lord Cecil King's International Publishing Corp...
...favor and affection which they bear toward their parents." A few weeks before, Lord Home shed his own title to become just plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and that made the noble bit a little conspicuous for the children. Meriel took a proper commoner job as salesgirl at Bumpus, London's venerable bookshop. A photographer caught her melding into her new scenery during lunch hour, going shopping like everyone else...