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DIED. DEAN BUMPUS, 89, oceanographer who littered the Atlantic with tens of thousands of bottles to study the ocean's currents; in Woods Hole, Mass. He asked seabound friends and strangers to dump overboard boxfuls of bottles--each with a note asking its finder to send a postcard with the place and date of its discovery, in exchange for 50 [cents]. The project helped track weather and fish patterns; postcards are still coming...
...Threat of Piracy. Branching out in new directions, Maxwell this year bought Britain's largest typesetting firm, the famed London bookshop of John and Edward Bumpus, and a subscription-book subsidiary of Press Lord Cecil King's International Publishing Corp...
...favor and affection which they bear toward their parents." A few weeks before, Lord Home shed his own title to become just plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and that made the noble bit a little conspicuous for the children. Meriel took a proper commoner job as salesgirl at Bumpus, London's venerable bookshop. A photographer caught her melding into her new scenery during lunch hour, going shopping like everyone else...
...trial itself was hardly recommended reading for law students. Once, when the demurrers of Defense Attorney Dr. Leon A. Ransom (a Negro) got under the skin of Prosecutor Bumpus, he threatened to wrap a chair around Ransom's head. Judge Ingram often overruled defense objections before they could be completely stated...
...astonishment of Lawyer Bumpus and almost everyone else, from Lawrenceburg to Mink Slide, the jurors took their oath seriously. Correspondent Vincent Sheean, who had covered the trial with mild hysteria, called the jury's action "the kind of thing that makes us realize the full splendor of our destiny as a nation...