I had someone close to worry about, my big brother, Marvin, joined the Army Air Force and became a navigator. Fortunately Marvin survived the war and came home to a long, successful career as a jewelry designer. Marvin also kept his love of music for his entire life and had his compositions played at Lincoln Center. MARVIN’S ADVENTURES IN JEWELRY Marvin had a couple of adventures that could have had serious consequences on his road to success. First, Marvin went to San Francisco to sell some jewelry. He was on the 22nd floor of his hotel when word came that the hotel was being evacuated because of an earthquake. Marvin was not about to leave his jewelry so he stayed in his
room. The whole city went dark. The telephones were not working. It must have been a scary night. On another occasion Marvin was sitting in a bank waiting for his appointment when masked robbers jumped over the railing and announced a hold up. As they finished and ran away, Marvin ran after them to get their license number. Fortu- nately they didn’t shoot him. But the worst and most dangerous adven- ture was when an ex-vice-president of a promi- nent jewelry firm, invited Marvin to visit him at his home in the Midwest. The man suggested Marvin bring some of his jewelry and he would show it at his country club. Within moments of his arrival at the man’s home masked men broke in, hog-tied Marvin, oddly addressed him by name, and stole about a million dollars worth of
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