Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Oct. 14 cover showed the U.S. repairman astride a snail; maybe you should have had another cover showing a genuine scientist sleeping next to a hare while a tortoise was in Siberia launching his Sputnik...
Your article neglected an important source of the repairman's business-the continued cheapening of American products. "Built to wear out" could be a motto for many modern gadgets; this is the sand on which the American economy seems to have built its Sputniked spiral...
With the arrival of TIME and the repairman article came a broken faucet in the bathroom and an odd noise in the transmission of the car. The TV set (last week's trouble: condenser) now needs a new picture tube. At times like this I wonder if Grandma's day wasn't better. At least the only thing that broke down then was Grandma...
...Cigar Hunt. When Mrs. Ballou isn't bear-hugging her little darling, she likes to gaze fondly at her college diploma framed upon the wall. Some people, she points out to Benjy, lack her advantages. The most conspicuous lackee is Daddy Ballou, a monosyllabic TV repairman. Daddy usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten...
...must be removed and sent back to the factory for maintenance, so tomorrow's new radar ranges, electronic dishwashers and color TV consoles will have plug-in motors and control units that only factory experts will repair with special tools and special knowledge. The major labor the U.S. repairman will be called upon to perform-at his $5-an-hour fee-will be to take out a nonfunctioning unit, plug in a substitute and ship the original back to the plant. And then some day U.S. industry will achieve its ultimate goal: the humming electronic gadgets in every...