Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milkman gets as far as the back step, the salesman may have to talk with his foot in the door. But the television repairman gets a personal invitation, five or six times every year, to step right into the U.S. living room. For the 50,000 TV repairmen who keep America's 27,150,511 television sets in tune, every call is a challenge to keep the client content and the repairman's honor bright. When special problems arise, solutions can be found in the TV Technician's Handbook on Customer Relations...
Sales Campaign. In Reno, police arrested Radiator Repairman Verle Wilbur and three teen-age boys, said Wilbur had hired the boys to punch holes in the radiators of 35 to 50 parked cars...
Died. Roger William Riis, 58, Reader's Digest roving editor who specialized in exposing food & drug rackets and airing consumer grievances ("The Truth About Smoking," "The Repairman Will Gyp You If You Don't Watch Out"); of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...minutes later a repairman came to the rescue and led the gentleman, one of Japan's foremost educators, to his destination, 28 Massachusetts Hall. Murmuring that he had been "misguided," the professor was met by a secretary who handed him a list of appointments. A Crimson Key man was there to see that he didn't wander into any more basements during his brief visit to Harvard...
Good Customer. In Butte. Mont., Shoe Repairman C. E. Miller surprised a burglar entering his store, let him go after the man assured him: "I trade here all the time...