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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...