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...nation laboring to create itself. Camden built everything from battleships to toilet seats, and people here claim you could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight vessels at a time. Bard of it all was Walt Whitman, whose spirit trembled at the call of an industrial giant that thrived on the energy, poetry and power of machines. Whitman loved the noise of Camden...
Jonathan, a sturdy sixth-grader who attends the Esterbrook School in Lexington, says that life at the Quad is "basically the same" as it was before the Flicks moved on campus five years ago. He admits a weakness for the Food Services Chinese dinner and mentions the facilities at the Quad as an attractive fringe benefit...
Crowds passing through the display saw copies of Ronson and Zippo lighters, Sheaffer and Parker pens, Bell & Howell movie projectors, Leica cameras, Esterbrook desk-pen sets, Revere Ware copper-bottomed saucepans, even a West German B.M.W. motorcycle. Some Japanese copies were so precise the parts were even interchangeable with foreign products. "There would be many more complaints if people only realized the full extent of the copying," said one trade official. "American electrical appliance makers may be due for an early shock. Japanese appliance manufacturers are rapidly nearing the stage of technical proficiency where facsimile copies will be possible...
Among the more experienced of the others are Nick Esterbrook at 147 and Andy Pettit at 157. Esterbrook previously wrestled at Milton and he gained one of the Yardling's three pins against the Engineers...
Converting so much talk into a film required virtual scrapping of the Behrman version. Scripters Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein proceeded to remodel Hero Gaylord Esterbrook (James Stewart) into a country bumpkin with an odd flair for bright comedy. His hesitant romance and marriage with Actress Linda Paige (Rosalind Russell) becomes a slapstick backstage burlesque containing the only fun in the film. From then on Epstein gets tangled with Behrman in a confusing hodgepodge of drawing-room wit heavily weighted with dramatic overtones...