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...sightseeing; Buckingham Palace, he allowed, was "a swell pad. I think I'd like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Cassius bought a red brocade cocktail coat and got fitted to a bowler; the fitter respectfully informed him that his head was slightly lopsided. Crowds of autograph hunters packed around. "Who are you?" asked one puzzled Londoner. "Sonny Listen!" Cassius yelled, trying to look mean...
Like many of his literary predecessors, he ran away from school. The disguise he chose for his flight to Paris could hardly have been more bizarre. Modeled on that of a contemporary gas fitter, the costume consisted of a tall hat, long black overcoat, false mustache, a bag of bogus tools and a copy of The Gas World. But Paris looked at him with an indifference to match his own, and (less conspicuously dressed) he took off for points east with a donkey and a rather nutty companion who was a much more usual type of rebel, a romantic poseur...
...elevator route," the Italian Scoiattoli (literally, "squirrels") predicted that they would "scrape his remnants off the wall with a spoon." Not if Siegert could help it. For his team, he recruited two Munich friends with whom he had escaped from East Germany seven years ago: a lightning-rod fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes, lightweight nylon ropes and 1,000 special pitons, designed by Kauschke. On the sheer slate and limestone...
Died. Dallas E. Winslow, 68, a Michigan farm boy who quit school in the sixth grade to become a piano-key fitter, bought a gas station on the installment plan, invested the profits in a Detroit pool hall, and then began buying up faltering businesses,* finally organizing a multimillion-dollar net of farm machine, lawn mower, and auto parts factories under the parent Mast-Foos Co., of which he was president until his death; of complications following surgery for lung cancer; in Detroit. On the theory that "happy employees do a better job," during his last 40 years in business...
...Loves. Lavrinc had two loves: his flying and his family. Son of a Pennsylvania pipe fitter, he was schooled in Navy radar in World War II, later went to the airlines as a ground communications man. In 1948, while working with the Panagra line in South America, Lavrinc met and married brunette Bonnie Maupin, a Braniff Airways reservations girl. He diligently took flying lessons on his own, qualified as a copilot with Piedmont in 1951, advanced to captain six years later...