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When he had lectured at the school before, every child had seemed a model of behavior. That behavior, he concluded, was the result of a chastening caning now & then. So Eric Wildman, who manufactures whipping canes and recently organized Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, had felt very much at home at Horsley Hall...
Last week, the school invited him back, even had reporters there to cover his lecture. Wildman, who likes publicity, readily accepted and brought samples of his best canes with him. "Aren't they beautiful?" he asked, and thereupon launched happily into his lecture about his canes ("My canes are antiseptic"), and how they should be used. "You may think me an ogre," he said. "But corporal punishment is a common-sense doctrine. Boys & girls are not always angelic...
...assembly listened ever so politely. So did bearded Headmaster Robert Copping, who is only 28. "Tell me, Mr. Wildman," he asked, "what is the most suitable cane for a boy 15 years old or over?" Wildman brandished his prized 30-inch Dragon Smoky Malacca, "a very pliant and punishing cane." "And how many strokes do you advise?" Headmaster Copping asked. Smiling, Wildman suggested "Six of the best, in the place that seems to have been provided by nature for the purpose." At that point, Headmaster Copping gave a signal...
...nearly two miles, Los Angeles' Figueroa Street is lined with used-car lots flying the flamboyant flags of dealers like "Madman" Muntz, "Wildman" Pritchard, and "Honest John." Their zany ads for buying & selling cars delight zany Angelenos. Samples: "Just sound your horn ... we pay by ear," and "I want to give them away but Mrs. Muntz won't let me ... she's crazy...
...said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built a textile empire in less than three years. Last week Wildman Little did turn a trick. He paid $12 million to Benjamin Brown Gossett for his mills in Charlotte, N.C. and Anderson, S.C., thus adding twelve southern mills to Textron's 13 in New England, and more than doubling Textron's cotton and rayon capacity. But Little still has to perform his main trick-making Textron the most integrated and most profitable U.S. textile company...