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...1930s in Jefferson City, Mo., then home to 23,000 people, his schoolmates called him Johnny. Slightly large hands and feet gave him a strong backstroke on the high school swimming team, recalls Boeing Chairman T.A. Wilson, a freestyler on the same squad. Johnny's father "Gump" ran a local hardware store. Years later, when the boy began making it big in business, a reporter for the local newspaper went out to see Gump and asked whether he was surprised by his son's success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plain Vanilla, but Very Good | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...Association for the Advancement of Colored People before retiring in 1977, died at 80. Then Vernon Jordan, 46, president of the National Urban League for the past ten years, announced at a New York news conference that he was resigning to join the Dallas-based law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye to the Old Guard | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Maryland's Audrey Sehmuhl confirmed Harvard's fears at 22:26 when she received a free position ten yards in front of Crimson keeper Charlotte Worsley and proceeded to beat "Little Gump" with a blistering smash to the lower left corner...

Author: By John Beilenson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Laxwomen Fall in National Semis... | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...Little Gump, who will be tested severly this Saturday, however was more emphatic. "We owe them one," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxwomen Win 5th, Dump Eagles 12-2 | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...defensive side Charlotte, "Little Gump" Worsley--who might have fallen asleep had it not been for the chill winds--was challenged just four times for the entire 50 minutes, mishandling a breakaway try by Julic Devlin and one by Bernie Lombardo to give up the two Eagle goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxwomen Win 5th, Dump Eagles 12-2 | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

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