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...about the unsung heroine or the helper to the do-it-yourself hobbyist? One needs to be a jack-of-all-trades, attending to . . . the dishes, watering, bathing the kids and dog; weeding, washing the car, answering the phone and door. Then there's the errand running: upstairs for the hammer, down the basement to hunt for the missing pipe wrench. "Hold this board at just this angle at just this moment." "Please get me some more putty." There is sanding. Especially the corners and awkward spots which won't respond to power equipment held in other hands...
...Hobbyist Applesmith dreams of an all white Africa in which everything will "go like clockwork." He has lived in this dream for so long that he has begun to anticipate it by creating clockwork forms of living things. Applesmith's mechanical fox terrier bitch can be made to beg for tidbits. And, says Applesmith, "nothing in its expression reproaches you for denying it ... The owner of my bitch need never feel guilty...
Trick Glasses. Before the moviemakers could recover from the shock and decide how to make Cinerama practical, Fate and an ardent film-hobbyist named Milton Gunzburg were jimmying the back door to salvation. Gunzburg, a mild little man of 42 whom one Hollywoodian has dubbed "the least likely Messiah in the history of hope," saw some home movies he had shot in 3-D, and had a great idea. "Why," he asked himself, "shouldn't a big studio be using this wonderful mechanism...
...this passion for living his parts that has led his wife to call Laughton "a gifted amateur." Charles shrugs agreement: "Why not? After all, amateur means lover,* doesn't it? I see no reason why a professional shouldn't love his work as much as a hobbyist loves...
...Folks. An art collector, tropical fish fancier and medical hobbyist (he has a library of 1,000 medical books), Elmer Bobst, 67, is also a keen student of geriatrics, has great faith "in the vast potential inherent in some 12 to 15 million people [in the U.S.] past the age of 65." Bobst himself is a testimonial to his faith. For him, life began anew at 60, when he came out of retirement to take over Warner-Hudnut. He also breathed new life into the company. Bobst launched a big expansion program, in six years boosted the company...