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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...
The Great Dukes. The century on display was the age of the Burgundian dukes, Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, who by marriage and conquest so augmented their insignificant duchy that they came to be known as "the Great Dukes of the Occident." In Bruges, Venetians and Genoese, Danes...
A highlight of the tour proved to be a subtle blend of Occident and Orient: the world premiere in Madras, India, of Symphony No. 13 by California-born Henry Cowell, a composer who has perched for many of his 62 years like an elfin Janus atop the steep divide between...
* Unlike their neighbors in Jodhpur, the natives of Jaipur have never succeeded in popularizing their local trouser-style in the Occident. As a matter of fact, even in Jaipur, the only people who wear jaipurs are babies.
East and West are pleasantly entwined at the Martin Book in "The Tea House of the August Moon." David Wayne is oriental and John Forsythe upholds the occident.