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Sometimes it is needed by the aged to permit the successful fitting of dentures; but more often it is needed by the many young adults who have the chinless "Andy Gump" profile commonly associated with a severe case of "buck teeth," a jaw that sags too far, or marked malformation or misplacement of either...
...January and February and the 8% gain of July-but merchants feel relieved that the advances have continued. Across the U.S., one big department store after another is reporting sales gains over last year: up 15% for Atlanta's Rich's, 18% for San Francisco's Gump's, 6% for Dallas' Neiman-Marcus, and 5% for New York's Gimbels (despite the newspaper strike). Even more significant than the figures is the attitude of shoppers. "Figures aren't our guiding light," says President Bernard Sakowitz of Houston's Sakowitz...
...roaring '20s, the family comics came along. Such respectable folk as the Gumps neither played the stock market nor swilled bathtub gin; it was probably no accident that Andy Gump was chinless. Blondie began life as a sharp-tongued flapper, but she soon settled down to suburban housewifely routine and is still the most widely read strip.* Little Orphan Annie veered from the family pattern since she lacked parents. But Daddy Warbucks, a billionaire arms manufacturer, has more than made up for their absence. With his help, ageless Annie has plowed under no end of evildoers while issuing...
...Fondling Pieces." Naturally, a plethora of stereotyped gifts is available: pen sets, leather-tooled engagement calendars, letter openers, diaries, rulers, cigarette lighters and ashtrays. San Francisco's Gump's is doing a big corporate business in "fondling pieces," otherwise useless hunks of jade that come in a suede pouch (price: $8.25). This year executives can also give and get desk-scale Rolls-Royce radiators, fused into everything from paperweights to cigar lighters to book ends...
...York has acquired some valuable talent over the winter, and could place as high as third. Jacques Plante, MVP two years ago, takes over for goalie Gump Worsley. Donnie Marshall and Phil Goyette at center ice, along with Val Fonteyne, one of the league's top penalty killers, will fill handsomely two former Ranger gaps. Right wing Andy Bathgate, among the league's top scorers for the last eight years, will miss left wing Dean Prentice, who is now a Bruin. However, he should team up well with Goyette as his center. If Camille Henry can continue to score goals...