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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More to Tap. Young Dick Gump was already running everything but finances before his father died in 1947. An amateur composer and watercolorist, Dick Gump had sharpened his collector's eye and taste on buying trips to Mexico and Italy. He directs the business from a deskless office, likes to roam through the store's three floors wearing loud-colored sport shirts. He also keeps tabs on Gump's branches in Honolulu and Carmel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Gump's Goes Modern | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...little hoarse from a cold picked up in Kansas City. But he had warm words for his audience, for the French in Canada, for Canada as a whole and for U.S.Canadian relations. Time & again he was interrupted by the desk-thumping of M.P.s and handclaps from the deskless Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: That Smile | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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