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* The deal: Stern's will buy up and retire 42.8% of its stock (145,332 shares), paying stockholders $24 a share. Puckett will get 81% of the remainder (157,252 shares), from two big stockholders, Stern's President Thomas W. MacLeod and Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., by trading them one share of Allied for two shares of Stern's.