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...Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner, Colyumist Broun sat near the speakers' table. Reminded of this, honest Colyumist Broun cried: "Oh, I must have got it from him! ... I couldn't remember." At White Plains, N. Y. James Edward ("Andy") Gump, 24, asked and was granted a court order changing his surname to Gale because, said he, the name "Gump" had a dictionary meaning of "simpleton," had been "widely advertised by cartoonists" as that of "a funny-faced comedian," and that by bearing it he had "gradually developed an inferiority complex." Next...
...Tennessee through Florida and from the Atlantic into Southern Louisiana), made an assuring statement (TIME. Oct. 27). Last week he again surveyed the Southern situation, made no grimace at the wreckage. Long associated with banking and industry in the South is Governor Black, whose reputed facial resemblance to Andy Gump of the funny papers amuses rather than bothers him. Heard with respect was his announcement last week...
...Names make news." Last week the {allowing names made the following news: Eugene Robert Black, governor oft the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, who looks like Andy Gump, prepared to read an address to the Investment Bankers Association of America in th convention at New Orleans on "Investment Possibilities in the South." Instead he made a stirring extemporaneous speech. Excerpts: "We have been living in an automobile, a Frigidaire, a radio era and have been sitting in an atmosphere of a Corona-Corona. We cannot pay our debts and continue in that...
Genial about his resemblance to "Andy Gump" is famed Governor Eugene Robert Black of Atlanta's Federal Reserve Bank (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week he suddenly began to act like comic strip Andy's fabulously rich "Uncle Bim" who airily bandies millions of dollars in "real money." Governor Black had been called on to stop runs against two prominent Havana banks. Gumpfully he ordered $25,000,000 in cash loaded into several airplanes, flew in one of them to Havana where bank running stopped abruptly...
...think such action is going beyond the reasons and functions of a college paper," stated Gump...