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...Totally disregarding New York Player-Coach Doug Harvey, who was clinging grimly to his right leg, Detroit's Gordie Howe expertly slipped a one-handed shot past Ranger Goalie Gump Worsley for the 500th goal of his 16-year career. Still a relatively youthful-and mighty aggressive-33, Howe needs only 45 more goals to break the National Hockey League scoring record set by Montreal's famed Maurice ("Rocket") Richard...
...Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week, when the New Yorkers blew a 2-1 lead to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a sullen crowd clustered outside the Ranger dressing room to taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump, no guts?" somebody asked Goalie Lome Worsley, who answered with a brisk curse. But then Center Andy Bathgate stepped quietly onto the sidewalk, and the fans' mood changed abruptly. "Attaboy, Andy," they murmured. "Attaboy, Andy baby...
Taste Setter. To bolster his store's carriage-trade appeal, outspoken Dick Gump long ago set out to establish himself as an arbiter of good taste. On lecture tours and in a widely sold book (Good Taste Costs No More), he has waged incessant war against what he considers bad design. One of his targets was none other than New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; he was distressed by the museum's pride in a gold cup made by Benvenuto Cellini in the shape of an ornate shell resting on a dragon riding on a turtle...
...Gump's own taste in all things has not been universally admired. The New York Times said that his favorite hobby-the Guckenheimer Sour Kraut German Band, which he leads in irregular concerts in San Francisco-deserves "a special place in the history of musical mayhem." But in matters artistic, Gump's has established itself as a place where people not sure of their own judgment may buy confidently. Bargains are not the house specialty, but not everything is expensive: on the same page in the Gump catalogue, a gold-finished compact with a jade medallion is listed...
Soft Sell. Gump thinks that his store's reputation rests primarily on the casual soft sell practiced by its knowledgeable sales staff. "I've told them," says Gump, "that if we don't carry an item, tell the customer where he can buy it. Don't tell him we have something better. The customer thinks, 'Isn't it nice of Gump's to tell me where to find it,' and he comes back to Gump...