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Underneath the big top, with the greatest of delicacy and the easy smile of a star, Dick Withington is juggling invisible Indian clubs. Up goes his left hand: "16,000." Down goes his left hand and up goes his right hand: "17,000." Left hand again, supple and rock steady: "18,000." His knees are slightly bent, his weight well forward. His voice as he calls off the ascending prices is clear and controlled, the even numbers chanted a couple of notes higher than the odd. There is no trace of strain. He can keep the bidding on this early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in New Hampshire: and You're a Winner! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Withington understands acquisitive lust. "I'm a multimillionaire," he tells a visitor. "I'm president of the town bank. I own five houses and a church too." He is and he does, in this well-barbered hamlet of Hillsboro Center, N.H., a glossy enclave of green lawns and ancient white clapboards, with never a rusty manure spreader or junked '67 Plymouth sagging in the sideyard. His self-pleasure is bubbly and innocent. A visitor asks whether it is true that he takes 20% from each sale. "Yes!" he says, beaming. He is delighted to be ringmaster of the classiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in New Hampshire: and You're a Winner! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Jokes are not going to pull another thousand out of the air this time, however, and Withington's sure instinct tells him not to upstage the oxbow chest. It is a prize, one of the four or five best pieces to be offered. Yesterday at the preview here, dealers prowled around it, old predators who carried their age with arrogance. Kenneth Hammitt, a veteran dealer from Woodbury, Conn., ran his eye approvingly over its shaped serpentine top and guessed that it would bring about $25,000. Then Jack Partridge, an old friend and adversary from North Edgecomb, Me., showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in New Hampshire: and You're a Winner! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Withington calls, "Fair warning," holds his hands two feet apart, waits, checks his stalled losing bidder again, claps hands and calls out "You're a winner!" Sold, no surprise, to Kenneth Hammitt. The oxbow chest vanishes, and a pair of Hepplewhite tables takes its place. They are Early American, like most of what Withington sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in New Hampshire: and You're a Winner! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Companies are also discovering that working at home may not result in significant savings. Says Frederic Withington, vice president of Arthur D. Little, a business consulting firm: "Superb devices will be available, but at relatively high cost because of deregulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telecommuting from a Flexiplace | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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