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Matthews's one and only goal is to be independent, and he would even forsake the security of a franchise restaurant for the autonomy of owning his own place. He was offered the managership of a Pewter Pot restaurant in Central Square, but "I don't want anybody to tell me how to run my place. If I feel like I should sell curry goat or short rib, they going to tell me no. I don't want to be a Pewter Pot." He doesn't want to accept orders from the manager of a chain, and he doesn...
...pretty good idea of what they were up against the minute they boarded. A day-glo poster above the driver's seat read, "Don't ask me to think--I was hired for my looks." Tall, blond, and paunchy, wearing his name (Dick) on a big pewter belt buckle, the man beneath the sign greeted the "ladies" as the coach pulled onto the Mass Pike. "A couple of you look familiar back there," he said. "I didn't see you in a strip joint on 42nd Street...
Stone, who succumbed in a preliminary round, defeated Minnie Coolidge of Smith to take the consolation final and a pewter trophy...
...hobbyists deck themselves out in historically accurate garb and gear, right down to pewter buttons. Otto de Pierne, a chemical researcher from East Norwalk, Conn., spent $7,000 outfitting himself as a surgeon, even collecting the original bottles for 118 drugs carried by 18th century battlefield medics, as well as all the drugs-except opium-which he had to simulate. At Monmouth, he put on his 18th century glasses but apologized for wearing modern shoes. He also brought along his colonial desk, with quill pen and linen paper...
Wearing a sandwich board saying FUTURE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, Frier McCollister, 17, has been walking the sidewalks of Chicago's chic Michigan Avenue this summer with a pewter mug in his hand. McCollister has been admitted to Columbia but needs money. He is probably ineligible for various grant programs because his family's income is $25,000 a year, yet his parents have barely been able to raise the $7,000 to pay for the basics: room, board and tuition. So McCollister, who tried to find a summer job, has taken to an old form of free enterprise...