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In 1935, Sid opened up a hardware and electric store on Q CD Bloor, between Christie and Clinton Streets. lie and his cD young wife - they were married when they were 17 - It lived behind the store. C'*4 "My w1fe worked In the store, and people could see the 0 cD repair shop where I worked," he says. "I was the only Lin man in the city doing repair work, and It grew. Ituok in Q help and eventually It became the largest part of my Q Q business. Toward the beginning of the war, the govern- W_Ment prohibited metals, so I started making my own c,4 parts. Soon I had all the major manufacturers, Genetal Electri!r. Silex, Sunbeam, serlding me their repairs. Q Eaton's and Simpsons sent trucks of stuff over every day. Q CN and CP sent- me truck loads of repairs. Even Hydro id notified all public utilities of my work." I During the war, I got deferments because I was doing work for the army. In the civil defence department, and working with the police." Ells business became too big for the Bloor Street shop, so In 1942 he sold his hardware business and moved into his electronics business down the stseet. People were so shocked that he sold out, he named his new compan@ "Shock Electric." People never forgot It. lie was training mechanics and working on the war effortat the same time. and repairing appliances from every.'province In the dominion. including the Yukon. Five years later, he moved again, this time to a large four storey building he bought on Breadalbane Street. He eventually employed Go workm and took the most challenging jobs home to play with and experiment with In his basement. Two years after Shock Electric moved to Breadalban 3- 5F :3 X 0 (D > 0 A -IrIL yX SID HURWICH glorying In the mass of wires and old oi@pflsnces VW have mWe him the king of *loam V94M smaw If WHIT Y, vuhay-N&OF is'J'A"? (This Is the second In a three-part series on what mn deils happens to missing socks. Today's colu with "Tbe Cause.") According to a woman from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., the answer to disappearing socks Is mathemati- cally figured in subsets. if you wash a pair of blue socks with a red stripe (BL/RD)2 and a pair of green angoras (GR/A)2 and a pair of white tennis socks (WH/T)2, all three pairs would be C41led X. . %. I, If Y had (GR/A)2 and (WH/T)2, then every element In Y Is an element of X. Hence Y Is a subset of X or X CY. If there-is a boldness In BL/RD2 somewhere between fill and spin dry, BL/RDZ splits. That answer made more sense than most of the others sent In to deterinine what happens to socks In the washer. Most of the writers zeroed In on sex. Like coat hangers and paper clips. socks were believed to have an active sex life - but only in water. Some believed they married, but they-fooled around and often divorced in the dryer. No alimony was Involved. Some stayed together through two or three washings, but suddenly turned Into a' s%inglng single. One writer believed that socks went through a sex change, coming out another color. A large number embraced the Planned Obsoles- oence theory, that Is a-conspiracy between sock and wis'her Inanufacturers who incorporate sock disin- tegra@ti* (right next to the button crusher) and Erma Bo.r nbe&ck sock sensors which nd up a sock and spit It out as lint. The newer mo els even have a reconstructed sock cycle which returns a sock lost f1ve years ago. There was a Sock Fairy theory for those of you who believe In Peter Pan, the Cloning theory where for every. pair of socks an extra one is cloned driving you crazy with three socks of one color, and the Best Friend theory where your friend Is secretly after your husband and both are trying to drive you whacko. There Is the Reincarnation theory where It Is believed that a sock returns In another form (One woman swore that after five years of losing* socks, they all came back one day as a sweater.) Some believed socks had an Identity crisis and sollt. Others leaned toward cannibalism. One writer went for the Steve Martin theory where socks, Instead or g6tting high on detergent, got small and disappeared. A great number believed socks to be a migratory species, activated by simply adding water. And finally, one writer blamed the United States government for programming w6skers to eat socks and keep the economy alive. One blamed the Russians for undermining American women's sta- bility. I'd have been disappointed if someone hadn't said that. he had his first he#rt attack, at 36 years of age. been sick a day in my life and I nearly went era to stay In bed for three months." The follovdrig year be had anoiber heao atta( time he was told to retire, to give up his g@iness think I'll make the old age pension?'ohe rt, asking his doctors. "If you live six n hs, miracle. Go home and enjoy." be was ri "For three years, I did practically i In my basement. I read. I invented a maKA c ff, coils that I eventually sold." he says '"Then doing repairs for charity. It got me bacia Men 42k and back to work on the newer applIan Still, his heart wasn't strong, even er ht business. In 1961, he couldn't walk wl t exp @)4 extreme pain and he was advised to ve 0@ surgery. At that time, It wasn't being tione he ccess went to Boston. But the surgery was &@ "As a result, I've learned to take car-9 of m) says, at 65; a dapper gent, with bright 'Efffie eye'! skin and a good head of hair. Millie, his full-time housekeeper, bias &ome sable since his wife died three years gWo. Ili who's also his cousin, visits him tvilce k often If he's at all under the weather. Mko larg tanks guard his bed and his night table(i) filled bottlps, includingpainkillers that he'earpies witl can administer himself:- "Work's the best medicine In the si@orgt" he. Once. In hospital, a nursi came to giTR him i cardiogram. but the machine wasn't wfting. "It had just been repaired and she waouster in-an oxygen tent, but I took a look and' ;g.sked I could get me a screwdriver, a pair of @ilers z wire. In 20 minutes I had it working and&% a re.@ offered the Job of managing the service sad mai departments of the Mount Sinai Hospi . My lurlous. Here I was. so sick I was beln poon was fixing hospital equipment through oxyg@ His biggest coup has been called The ret of He's been called the Hero of Entebbe a an el genius, for his Invention, dubbed the HILrwich or Ray Or Beam, that Is based on a - pie h . _@;rn used In every household, every day. e Rp IMs. *Ike 1116% parallysed "a Entel-he and enabled the Israells'to fly in undetc&d. For the device. which Sid gave to lsraqlLthoui invented It originally to stop thefts of not dep here, he won the Israeli Medal of lionorlind the nity to continue his work with the Canadian go% cievices that he will only describe as ha capacity to save hundrOds of lives. "The most Important thing Is to learn your 11 capabilities. I'm proud that doctors use m example for other patients. It's so simple to be at to Jay down and die." Sid flurwich sImPlY *on't.