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Operation Trusty. In Michigan City, Ind., Trusties Walter Gump and Leo Stumbaugh, stopped while walking out of the Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...
...family's 85-year-old store is both an art shrine where collectors and plain shoppers may browse in peace, and a smart shop where a bride may order everything from her china, glassware and sterling to her custom-tailored furniture and kimonos. Gump's will give shelf room to a $12.50 piece of California pottery-if it is esthetically good-alongside a $1,800 piece of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and encourages its customers to do the same...
Saloon Trade. Gump's got its Oriental flavor by an act of God. The store was founded during the Civil War by Solomon Gump, son of a Heidelberg linen merchant, who found gaudy, gold-crazy San Francisco too exciting to leave. He began making mirrors for saloons, and thanks to frequent gunplay, got plenty of profitable repeat business. He branched out and began furnishing the homes of California's new millionaires with Victorian-era "art treasures" from Europe...
...disaster for son Abraham Livingston Gump, if no great loss to the art world, when Gump's stock was burned out in the 1906 earthquake. "A.L." decided that Western art wasn't everything: he sent buyers to Japan and China to collect Oriental art. Gump's gradually built up one of the finest collections of rugs, porcelains, silks, bronzes and jades that Western eyes had ever seen, and A.L., who was all but blind, learned to judge it all expertly by touch...
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...