Dear Clive,
Having just discovered your inquiry, I do not believe that the Samuel you reference was my grandfather. What you described fit neither his vocation nor my understanding of his location in the late 1940s.
I'm guessing that Samuel S. was the following Sklarew:
Birth Date: 27 Jul 1911
Death Date: Mar 1980
Social Security Number: 058-01-9265
Per
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/SSDI/individual_recor...[My grandfather died several years earlier.]
Kind regards,
Dann Sklarew