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...idle boast, but now David Renwick, 32, is anything but idle. An artsy-craftsy Englishman who set up shop near Sheffield four years ago to practice the dying art of hand-forging iron, he whimsically wrote to an American pal: "I can make anything from lamps to chastity belts." The pal promptly responded with an order for a hand-forged chastity belt from an anonymous Texan. Well, why not? Renwick found a design in a public library, forged a replica-and immediately received orders for 40 more...
Since then, Renwick has had little time to produce anything but chastity belts. Orders for his belts-decorated with a frilly flower design and diamond-shaped cutouts around the waistband -keep arriving from the U.S., France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. A Mr. Fung of Hong Kong wanted one with a 32-inch waist. A dealer in Italy asked for 150 of them and in Kuwait, Renwick's agent reports that a few sheiks are interested in his wares. "I'd much rather make a weather vane or a fat cow than reproduce something as inherently horrid...
...steals from Harvard defensemen gave R.P.I. breakaways on Higgins early in the second period. Rancourt converted the first at 3:17 and John Renwick hit the second at 6:19, making the score...
...early investors in ATV. A single original share in ATV that sold for 20? is now worth $30.80. Norman Collins, 51, author and TV executive who originally put up $7,000 of the $50,000 that launched ATV, now finds his shares worth $1,400,000. Sir Robert Renwick, industrialist and broker who invested $4,200, has shares worth $959,500, and Charles Orr Stanley, chairman of Pye radio and TV company, has seen his shares burgeon...
...Collins, Renwick and Stanley pioneered commercial TV in Britain in the day when the nation was generally against commercial TV on principle. Led by Collins, who walked out of a $10,400-a-year job as a BBC-TV program director, because his bosses were too stuffy, the three managed to push through the Television Act that established commercial TV, set up four TV studios to broadcast...