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There is nothing "modern" about his house, at least in the stiff, sterile, museum sense. It look's like the home of a traveling tinker, cluttered with gadgets, junk and such craft objects as an old cradle scythe, an Algerian blanket, a tom-tom, a coffee table made from a square sheet of aluminum, calabash rattles and rattles made of beer cans filled with pebbles. Somehow, Calder's wife Louisa keeps the place livable, and their two children play happily among the mobiles...
After the dress rehearsal, Burgin singled out the bassoon section for special praise. Theodore J. Schultz 4G is first bassoonist and John F. Tinker, instructor in Chemistry, is second...
...about ray guns and spaceports, but Lancelot himself is an old standby. Adorned with an "oversized Adam's apple, ears like a loving cup's handles, and a grin like a Saint Bernard puppy," Lancelot is that time-tested hero, the gangling young whippersnapper who loves to tinker-and more often than not tinkers his way to a fabulous discovery. With the greatest of ease he captures a group of space pirates who try to hold up his ship in mid-stratosphere, invents a velocity intensifier which ups his ship's speed to 670 million m.p.h...
...born tinker, Dallas' independent oilman Ben Barnett turned a onetime skating rink into a factory where he manufactures everything from children's play furniture to outdoor steak grills and toilet-paper holders. Last year his Harben Manufacturing Co. (named after Ben and his wife Harriet) grossed...
Last week, totting up $9,897 profits for June, Barnett split one-third of it with his 66 employees. Explained the happy tinker: "They earned it by increased production. I can't take it with...