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...Gump family have been galumphing along in their daily comic strip for over 30 years. They first appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Chinless, blowhard Andy Gump, his long-suffering, last-wording wife Min, and their billionaire Uncle Bim became as familiar to millions of newspaper readers as the neighbors, and Andy's anguished cry for help ("O, Mini") was a byword of the '30s. When a minor character called Mary Gold was heartlessly killed off (the first U.S. comic-strip figure to die), thousands of readers protested...
Like the luscious nude over the barroom mirror, or Mother Goose in the nursery, the bright prints of pink-coated foxhunters have become the standard pictures for thousands of U.S. libraries, dens and rumpus rooms. Richard Gump, the iconoclastic, 44-year-old president of Gump's famed art store in San Francisco, thinks that's a shame. "Why not baseball or football pictures?" he asks. "Those frozen hunting prints have become purely functional, like door knobs. Pictures mean nothing unless they make sense to the man who looks at them...
Last week Gump's put 250 sporting prints, drawings, sculptures and paintings on exhibition to prove that rumpus-room art can make sense to contemporary U.S. citizens. The show went back three centuries, included an engraving of the Duke of York (later King James II) playing tennis. There were paintings and prints of boxing, football, baseball, hockey, skiing and golf-and an early 19th Century engraving, Playing at Bomble Puppy...
Nearly 500 people a day swarmed through the exhibition, which was already turning out to be the most popular in Gump's 91-year history. The first pictures to go were an 18th Century engraving of two cupids making a prim stab at golf, and four Victorian prints celebrating croquet, bathing, archery and rowing. Beamed Impresario Gump: "We've taken sporting art out of the box seats and moved it into the bleachers...
...wholly English or Indian, Harvard is closer to educating the youth of this country than in its prewar (monastic) days. Perhaps the dean will refund the tuition of Messrs. Herbert and Keller and then they can transfer to a more monosexual institution. David N. Shapire '49 Frank E. Gump...