Armand Spitz

Humble Beginnings: Learned celestial navigation while a dishwasher on a freighter.

Radio Background: Hosted "My Stars."

Discovered Visual Aids: Build four foot diameter paper moon. Began poking holes in tin, letting light shine through.

Career in Education: More radio. TV. Lectures. Star and weather shows. Began first National Science Fair.

Destiny Revealed: Built prototype star projector. Improved on it. Took it to Washington DC, where it was mistaken for an atomic bomb. Turned out more. Sold them to schools and theaters. To travelling star shows, inflatable star shows. To Arkansas cave dwellers. Sold Spitz Jrs. to children. Sold stars for a buck, planets for a couple hundred, the sun and moon for half a grand. Fathered "Spitz's Sputnik Spotters." Build Spitz Space Transit Planetarium. Saw moon landings and called it quits.

Armand Spitz, the Henry Ford of Planetaria.