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While more and more retailers stampede customers with discount prices and waylay them near home with suburban branches, the pride of San Francisco's Post Street, Gump's Inc., prospers by remaining as aloof as Kipling's cat. With arrogant contempt for trends, Gump's eight years ago sold its only two branch stores (in Honolulu and Carmel, Calif.), and the nearest thing to a loss leader a Gump's customer can expect to find is a pair of pewter and brass candlesticks reduced from $250 to $125. Yet in a little more than...
Driving the century-old family store to new heights is a white-haired, crew-cut retailing iconoclast, Richard Benjamin Gump, 55, grandson of the founder. When Dick Gump took over full management in 1947, his father, A. (for Abraham) Livingston Gump, had already built the store into one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient's art. Dick shocked Gump's older patrons by streamlining the temple-quiet, museumlike showrooms into tastefully contemporary salesrooms. And though the Oriental accent still dominates, Gump's small task force of buyers, led by Dick himself, scours...
...born in Boone, Iowa, at 16 married Meat Packer John Doud (who died in 1951). A witty woman with a tart tongue, she moved to Denver in 1904, lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was "Min"-after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, "Oh, Min!" when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, "Oh, Mother!" to his wife. She lived in the White House from the time of Ike's first inauguration until 1957, when...
...founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial amity. Police Chief Luther Reynolds is a 62-year-old, greying Andy Gump, a man who "does not believe Jacksonville is ready for integration...
...Gumps were conceived, named (after a favorite family expression, "Don't be a gump") and lovingly nursed by the late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News and president of the Tribune-News syndicate. For turning out the immensely popular strip, the syndicate paid Cartoonist Sidney Smith a record $150,000 a year. The Gumps survived Smith's death in 1935 (Cartoonist Gus Edson has drawn it ever since) and Patterson's in 1946, but their following slipped and a number of newspapers dropped the strip...