Word: tinsmith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PAINTER HENRI ROUSSEAU (1844-1910) was the son of a tinsmith, became a customs officer and started in art as a Sunday painter. In middle age he developed enough confidence to resign from the customs (now it would be "Sunday all week long"). He lived on a tiny pension, in a one-room studio, but he did not mind the cramped quarters because, when he woke up in the morning, he could "smile a little at his paintings." His now famed works suggested the bright but prim world of a precocious child, its whims ranging from shaggy liona to mustached...
...invited the scared Brothers, self-professed keepers of the Moslem tradition, to explain precisely certain passages of the Koran. When they faltered, he sneered: "You call yourselves soldiers of God!" Under his searing tongue, the accused abjectly passed the buck to one another. Mahmoud Abdul Latif, the little tinsmith who fired eight wild shots at Nasser in Alexandria a month ago, burst into tears and sobbed that he was but a dupe led on by clever masters. Supreme Guide Hodeiby protested violently: "I stayed against my will and tried to resign, but the Brotherhood refused." At first, Terrorist Chief Youssef...
Abdul Latif, a 32-year-old Cairo tinsmith, a Moslem Brother since 1938. Two months ago a secret Brotherhood group had picked him to kill Nasser. His confession was all the regime was waiting for; at last the cops felt free to go after the powerful Moslem Brotherhood, the last legal opposition to Nasser...
Thus, when things go wrong, a sudden sickness or a layoff, the plight of the worker can quickly become catastrophic-as in the case of Tatsuji Ishii, 43-year-old Tokyo tinsmith. As an artisan with a skimpy one-man business, Ishii had no salary and no union card, but he had a wife and five children. He owed the grocer, the milkman, the rice dealer. Two weeks ago he sold the family sewing machine to pay the milkman. Last week he fed the whole family a ceremonial meal of rice and red beans. Afterward Ishii strangled his wife...
Knives by the Carload. Keating, the son of an Austrian immigrant who became a successful tinsmith, got through Chicago's Armour Institute with twelve athletic letters and a cum laude in mechanical engineering. He thinks the best way to render his own products obsolete, and thus create new markets, is to keep improving his designs. He pays Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy $75,000 a year to think up new styles for handles, new color combinations, etc. As a result, in cutlery alone, he is now producing an average of 300,000 knives a week (ranging from...