Spirit of '76 (Cont'd)

Fortnight ago the selectmen of Marblehead voted to allow a reproduction of that Massachusetts town's pride, Archibald Willard's painting The Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit of '76 for commercial purposes 20 years ago all the selectmen lost their jobs in the next election. Marblehead's five selectmen quickly revoked their permission to have their famed picture copied.

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