Word: gumm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young Judy, by David Dahl and Barry Kehoe (Mason/Charter; $9.95), explores Grand Rapids, Minn., and Lancaster, Calif., for fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland...
...Jeanne Gumm, who handles public relations for the religious group, said yesterday both publications include "statements that Processeans were linked with the Manson family prior to the murder of Sharon Tate and that a Process member opened the kitchen door to Sirhan Sirhan shortly before he murdered Senator Robert F. Kennedy...
...Gumm said the accuations were "totally and maliciously fabricated and that the damage already done will make the religious work of The Process difficult if not impossible to carry...