Gump

https://www.c-span.org/video/?12381-1/silverado-savings-loan-investigation   

'May 23, 1990

Silverado Savings & Loan Investigation

In the second of two days of hearings, the committee examined the circumstances that led to the closing of the Silverado Savings and Loan Association.  

Witnesses included one of President George H.W. Bush’s sons, Neil Bush, who was a bank director.'  

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'It's time the United States kissed and made up with Iran."    Novelty. 5, 1987.   

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,"May 22, 2011. Born 1934 in McPherson, KS to Carl and Frances Mowbray, he received a bachelor's degree from Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS. After serving in the Army, he earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kansas.  

While in graduate school, he married Linda Gump and moved to Topeka to work at the  

Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka. "  

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'Forrest Gump was published in 1986.

Several years later, it was adapted by screenwriter Eric Roth as a  

1994 film  

of the same name,  

starring Tom Hanks in the title role of Forrest Gump. The film received six Academy Awards and numerous others; its popularity propelled the novel to best-seller status, and it sold 

 1.7 million copies worldwide.

"Groom was paid $350,000 for the movie rights to the film,  

but disputed accounting  

by Paramount Pictures related to profits from the film.  

He contended the company used Hollywood accounting  

to deflate profitability numbers; as a result, Groom received no share of the profits,  

although he held a three percent net profit share.  

He eventually settled with Paramount in 1995 in an agreement that included a seven-figure sum for the film rights to Gump and Co., plus a percentage of the gross profits." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Groom

Budget.    $55 million 

Box office$   $$$ 678.2 million  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump 

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Vera Gordon Bloodgood Scribner

Birth

8 Jun 1891

Death

15 Feb 1985 (aged 93)

Summit, Union County, New Jersey, USA  

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118796606/vera_gordon-scribner

'Vera Bloodgood Scribner, a horsewoman and the wife of the late publisher Charles Scribner, died of heart failure at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J. She and lived in Far Hills, N.J.

The Scribners married in 1916, and he was the president and chairman of the board of his family's publishing house, Charles Scribner's Sons, from 1932 until his death in 1952. 

 Mrs. Scribner was hostess to numerous Scribner authors, including Thomas Wolfe, at Dew Hollow, the family's Colonial residence in Far Hills, and elsewhere.

A skillful sidesaddle rider, she was master of the Essex Fox Hounds in Far Hills for 24 years, until 1961.

Mrs. Scribner grew up in New York City and attended the Chapin School.

She is survived by a son, Charles Scribner Jr. of Manhattan (now deceased), 

 chairman of the Scribner Book Companies;  

seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.," 

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Hildreth Kennedy Bloodgood

Birth

13 Jul 1861

Bay Minette, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA

Death

20 Feb 1918 (aged 56)

New York, New York County, New York, USA 

"Prominent Sportsman and Member of Union Club was winner of prizes in Dog show.  

He was a banker and one of the oldest executive members of the American Kennel Club.  

He died at his home, 158 West fifty-eighth Street. He was born in Mobile, Alabama. He died at 52 years of age.

Mr. Bloodgood was a member of the firm of Vernon C. Brown & CO., brokers, 80 Broadway, and owner of the Mepal Kennels at New Marlobrough, MA, where he specialized in raising cocker spaniels.

He was a director and judge of the National Horseshow for many years, and was known for his work in judging the hackney and harness classes..

 He was and enthusiastic polo player in his younger days, and was also known as being an ardent yachtsman and the winner of several cups.  

He was a member of the Knickerbocker, Racquet and Tennis, Westminster Kennel, Metropolitan, Union, and City Midday Clubs.

US National Champion in Men's Sabre competition 1888.

Past president  

American Spaniel Society."  

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher) 

,"In 1946, the company became Doubleday and Company. Nelson Doubleday resigned as president, but continued as chairman of the board until his death on January 11, 1949. Douglas Black took over as president from 1946 to 1963. His tenure attracted numerous public figures to the publishing company, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Robert Taft, and André Malraux.  

He was a strong opponent of censorship and felt that it was his responsibility to the American public to publish controversial titles" 

"By 1986, the firm was a 

 fully integrated international communications company,  

doing trade publishing, mass-market paperback publishing, book clubs, and book manufacturing, together with ventures in broadcasting and advertising" 

"Gump is portrayed as viewing the world simply and truthfully. He does not know what he wants to do in life, but despite his low IQ, he is made out to be full of wisdom." 

"a 1986 book review by Kirkus Reviews, the anonymous reviewer described the book as a  

 "stumbling, droopy-drawered attempt at a picaresque novel".  

The conclusion was  

"A heavy-handed, one-joke sort of novel which is, finally, a cheat"."  

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It's time the United States kissed and made up with Iran.(1987, Letter to the Editor)

November 5, 1987   

It's time the United States kissed and made up with Iran. Face it, we need their oil, and we need

translations for their torture manuals. The U.S. could learn a lot from Iran and their methods of

dealing with "deviants." Although the U.S. has been oozing down escalator of individual

freedom at a pretty decent rate for a capitalistic dictatorship, we'll need diesel-powered sneakers

to revert to the modern-day practices of Iran.

     I'm sure we can do it and you, the voter, are just the person to tie those red-white-n'blue laces.

Do it nice and tight like a noose or corset.

     A headline on October 13 read "Iranian executed by stoning." This immediately piqued my

hope for mankind. I mean, how often do you actually get to read about first-rate, modern-day

Salems? Top notch coverage, eh?

     The story reported that an Iranian clergyman was executed by stoning after being found guilty

of "gross immorality, drinking alcohol, possessing narcotics." Whew, and they say you can't have

a good time in Tehran!

     But think about how the United States could benefit in adopting such a policy.

     It's obvious that the first to go would have to be the door-to-door salesmen/evangelists such

as Jim Baker and ol' Oral. And if we took Reagan's Cabinet and staff members, we'd find ourselves

being ruled by the White House hairdresser------maybe we already are.

     McFarlane failed at overdosing on sleeping pills, and Reagan has to be shovel-fed uppers to

stay awake and man the Red Button. Poindexter reeled off close to 190 "I don't remembers"

during the Contra-expose, leaving him buried in a heavy heap of fraud. North and his cast of

millions, formerly lead by Bill Casey, or whomever of the Chronically Ignorant Agency, are still

thumbing through the land-mine section of a Sear's catalog, looking to lose some Swiss change.

     Taking this lot of losers and judging them as one big Incompetent, we find ourselves looking

for bricks and smiling. And we don't need to stop with the government and pulpit; we can just

go down the line and kill ourselves as well.

     Maybe the U.S. could open dialogue with the moderates of Iran if we sent them midnight

shipments of sandstone and granite. But then, we never know when we may need the stones

to build our own Berlinese Wall over the rights of the individual.

     Nancy must have gotten quite a shock when she read the aforementioned headlines about

executions by stoning: "Those drug-pushing fanatics, O heavens those barbarians!" She

undoubtedly fails to think of the way in which our country murders its own citizens. We stone

them to death using lethal intravenous---heinous injections-----everything is tidy and quiet.

     What an awesome head rush.

     It all boils down to something similar to this: Our governments are closet sado-masochists.

The U.S. hangs around the schoolyard after dark, knowing well the fanatical bully is walking

toward visionary Mecca at all times. Then we find Iran dropping firecrackers at our nuclear

tugboats and planting whoopie-cushion mines before our microscopic omnipotent eyes.

     We just need to form a corporate merger and be friends again. They need McDonalds like

the plague, and we could learn the mechanics of happy genocide.

F. Bloodgood, Stillwater, Okla. Junior

(University of Kansas, The Kansan "Mailbox" Nov. 5, 1987 

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"Swedish Coconut Oil Massage" 

...Four nights later...