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Istanbul to Athens 
Salah El-Dine M. Amin
Sat. April 9 -

At Swiss Air office I met a most striking & individual character. Egyptian Salah El-Dine M. Amin. Tall, black curly hair, devilish brown eyes, features like Polanco, plus small, black beard & nose hair. Slender fingers, good hands, shoulders somewhat stooped, walking like a rider of horses. Flamboyant, breezy personality, talking & joking with everyone, wanting people to like him & giving me the feeling he was emotionally insecure & restless - therefore the recklessness & abandon of his temperament. "To tell you the truth, when I first saw you, I just felt like talking, as I would with any passenger. But now, after my telling you that I like to write & giving you the plot of my story, which you finished for me, I felt differently towards you. You have a great sympathy for me - your eyes & the charming way you speak. You know, I must tell 


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Athens "The Glory That Was Greece. 
Flight to Athens   
Sat April 10

you I am married nine months now to a girl from Lebanon. Here is her picture. She is a nice girl, a good girl, a virgin when I married her and she loves me. But I like her, I don't love her. She is not my type. I give her a good life, a home, 2 cars, servants, jewelry - and she will be the mother of my children."

"I am not happy - always restless always gambling, taking big risks in by business. Since I am twelve years old, I am an old man with responsibilities. I wish I could be a simple, poor man, with a simple, modest job & no worries. Instead, I have the big [[strikethrough]] sp [[/strikethrough]] shipping concern & radio - I want to buy some airplanes & make a travel movie for the tourist trade."

(Bursting with ambition to place himself, in spite of what he says). because of his inferiority complex) While talking, he showed me the