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...with which he himself could sound the siren). Most important, El Amin kept himself out of political mischief by spending his days tinkering with old clocks and watches and later, when his hobbies turned more modern, with an expensive X-ray machine and a do-it-yourself kit for making blood tests on his relatives...
...bearded poet, essayist, critic, playwright, author of some 50 books (Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Thunder on the Left, Kitty Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube...
...shop in a few flea-ridden rented rooms. He hoped to make radios, which were scarce and rationed. But the Allies forbade production of radio equipment. However, they did permit the manufacture of toys, so Grundig turned out a "toy": a knocked-down "Do-It-Yourself" radio kit. He took advance orders and deposits from retailers to finance the deal, sold 75,000 as fast as he could make them, even though buyers had to scrounge the tubes on the black market. To expand, he leased a city-owned grazing meadow and put up four small frame sheds. Says Grundig...
...George Sullivan. 46, a Lockheed Aircraft Corp. patent attorney and engineer, whose hobby is guns. After Sullivan had produced a successful experimental model, he was taken under the wing of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. and turned out 30 copies of a highly efficient, 2¼-lb., unsinkable, survival-kit, .22-cal. rifle for the Air Force's Strategic Air Command crews...
...reasons for accepting the demanding post. "For those of us who have had the good fortune to inherit or acquire substantial means," he says, "this campaign presents the best opportunity we will ever have to repay our debt for having been started on the road with a full kit...