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Emett, now 70, says he does not want to make any more Things. Even a Hush-a-Bye Hot Air Rocking Chair, with all its crumpeted and cushioned comforts, can take months to complete, demand the services of 15 artisans and put his 200-year-old blacksmith's forge on 24-hour duty. The antic Edison of Wild Goose Cottage plans to paint and draw lithographs, wallpaper, cartoons and other whatsits that may yet make Emettiana an American household word. Mary, his loving wife and canny business brains of 35 years, concurs. Emett will nonetheless retain...
...passing on of the name becomes a refrain throughout the book. It binds George, who becomes trainer of Massa's fighting cocks, to his own past. In turn, he passes on "Kunta Kinte" to his son Tom, who is emancipated after the Civil War. Tom is a master blacksmith who, as a freed slave, moves his family to Henning, Tenn. The whites welcome his skills but will not allow a black to have his own shop. Rather than work for anyone but himself, Tom rigs a wagon with forge and bellows and begins a successful career as an itinerant...
...often said of Tony Costello that there was nothing he did not know about horses. No matter whom he happened to be working for--as coach-man, as hostler, as blacksmith--he would stop whatever he was doing and have a look at an ailing horse and give advice to the owner who had brought the horse to Tony...
...lives. Once the offensive lineman has been hit, each man has a specialty. Greenwood likes to use the "slip" move, pushing past his blocker. White prefers to knock his opponent aside with an "uppercut" shove under the shoulder. Holmes is a master of the "club," using one of his blacksmith forearms to belt a blocker to the side, and the "push and pull," in which he pushes a guard off balance and then pulls him aside. Greene is an expert at all four techniques. "When Joe stomps you, it's not infuriating," says Steeler Center Ray Mansfield, who faces...
...Blacksmith House is undoubtedly the best bakery in Cambridge (the Real Paper even said so last week). I go there to eat and little else, but through the 27th there's a fine exhibit there of photographs of the land, architecture and people of Iran. Their gallery is open...