For years, quietly and unsung, workers at the tiny P. & P. Chair Co. in Asheboro, N.C., have turned out rocking chairs for a limited clientele, mostly old ladies and pensioners. Then word got out of a more famous customer: President John F. Kennedy, who has installed a P. & P. chair in his White House office and rocks as he chats with visitors. Last week the creak from Kennedy's rocker was being heard from Maine to California, and thousands of Americans, from housewives to executives, scrambled to buy "a Kennedy rocker" from P. & P.
Kennedy has been using the...
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