Radio mirror (July-Dec 1947)

Come and Visit Martin Block (Continued from page 51) pony, Apache, is the only resident thus far, the Blocks — who love to ride — are shopping for more horses, and for ponies for the children. Martin is pleased when you remark the visible evidences of his success. And they are everywhere, despite the quite simple life the family leads. And pretty impressive they are, too, for a guy who left school after the eighth grade. It's not just the one-man studio. Art collectors go crazy seeing the paintings casually displayed about the house. Old Masters, French, Italian, English and Flemish, they are worth a fortune. There is a huge canvas by Michelangelo — this one is insured for $50,000 — a Franz Hals, two Carpaccios, a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Louis XVI furniture in the drawing room and the master bedroom is the real thing — brought to this country along with some of the paintings to furnish the French pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair. A MECHANICAL rather than an artistic wonder is Martin's complete kilowatt shortwave radio transmitter — with its own rotating beam — which is the envy of all the "hams" in the vicinity. Martin has set it up in "the dog house," an extra bedroom downstairs where he sleeps if he is too keyed up from a strenuous day on the air to keep the normal sleeping hours of the rest of the family. Many times Martin — like the legendary postman on his day off — will sit up half the night chattering with "ham" radio friends all over the world. It's relaxing, he says. Martin Jr., who is six, and Jo-Jo, going on three, can stick around sometimes to observe the amateur broadcasting— even get a word or two on the air themselves. It compensates somewhat for the Number One House Rule which they hate: "No Children Allowed in the Broadcasting Studio." The windows to the big studio are gummy from little noses being pressed wistfully against the glass. "Kids are funny," Martin says. "I can't wait to get out in the sun — they want to come in and play with the microphone and turntable. No matter how often I explain it to them, they can't get it through their heads that radio broadcasting is work!" "Doesn't sound like work, Daddy," Martin Jr. puts in — and his father should be flattered — "Not the way you do it." The boys adore their father, and the one thing which pleases Martin most about his new affluence is that his sons can grow up without the terrible insecurity which marred his own early years. He didn't quit school at fourteen because he wanted to, he says. (And he has not enjoyed the experience of being turned down for jobs a hundred times in his life for "insufficient education.") I The eighth grade was as far as Marl tin could make it because his family needed money and he had to work. I "Same work then as now — selling," he I says, "except when what you're selling I is newspapers the profit margin is narrower." I He was always a salesman, he says. 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