Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year Herbie Cartwright came up for reelection. But Herbie had made the mistake of turning off George dough's water supply and firing him as city radio repairman. Reason: Clough (rhymes with rough) operates radio station KLUF, which had been accusing Herbie of overcharging for water and mislaying $18,000 in city funds. George Roy Clough, 64, and 24 years Herbie's senior, decided to run for mayor...
Until a few weeks ago, being a hemophiliac never had seriously bothered 31-year-old Willie Cooke, a radio repairman in Four Oaks, N.C., despite intermittent hospitalization and transfusions for minor injuries. But when he had a tooth pulled early last month, intensive bleeding (20 to 25 pints a day) set in. At Duke University Hospital in Durham, doctors put him on the critical list, called for blood donors. As Willie grew weaker, an old gastric ulcer opened up, added to the blood loss. Clotting drugs (e.g., thrombin and Gelfoam) and antihemophilic globulin flown in from the Health Department...
...Muskies and their two children, Stephen, 5½, and Ellen, 3½, live in a $10,500 Cape Cod cottage in a new section of Waterville. Like most of his neighbors, Ed is a do-it-yourself repairman. Last year, in the midst of some intensive carpentry in his attic, he fell down the stairs, crushed a vertebra. At 40 the governor-elect is a slender, slightly stooped reed standing 6 ft. 4 in. He has curly brown hair, and a gentle, bemused manner that appeals especially to women. He describes himself as "neither a New Deal nor a Fair...
...Birds. In San Mateo, Calif., asking police to guard her home, Mrs. Howard Spreckels reported that a man had telephoned her, said he was a telephone repairman, asked her to whistle to test the line, then hung up after saying: "Thank you. We'll send you a box of birdseed tomorrow...
...Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, came to the U.S. in 1865 and changed his name to Harry Warren. Halvar's Norwegian-born son, Methias, and Swedish-born Chrystal Hernlund, who met and married in California in the 1880s, were Earl Warren's parents. Methias became master car repairman for a division of the Southern Pacific Railroad, turned into a mortgage-foreclosing recluse in his later years, was bludgeoned to death in his lonely Bakersfield, Calif, home in 1938. The motive was believed to be robbery; the crime has never been solved...