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Last week, Du Pont, having decided that it didn't want to get into the furniture business, granted royalty-free licenses on its design to seven manufacturers. Among them: the Art Metal Construction Co. of Jamestown, N.Y. and the Globe-Wernicke Co. of Norwood, Ohio, one of the biggest U.S. makers of office furniture. But the first to market will probably be little Gunn Furniture Co. of Grand Rapids, Mich., which expects to be in production by next week, will try to sell the desks at $500 apiece...
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...Twelve-year-old Jackie Lillie of Kinsman, Ohio sold his sorrel pony, Cocoa, to pay for his mother's funeral. At a horse sale in Jamestown, Pa., buyers returned Cocoa to Jackie with an extra...
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...earliest and best paintings on show was Edward Savage's formal portrait of Commodore Abraham Whipple, the hard-bitten New Englander who won the first sea battle of the Revolution, off Jamestown, R.I. and later snatched eight ships by stealth from a British convoy of 150. Savage's Whipple, magnificently bedecked for the occasion in a scarlet, gold-braided waistcoat and cocked hat, looked duck-footed, paunchy, and tough as a saltwater Punch...