Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Grade Fields, 54, durable British music-hall comedienne, who deliberately "tampered with the radio" because she liked the looks of the repairman; and Rumanian-born Abraham Boris Alperovici, 48, the radio repairman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Santo Stefano Church, near Gracie's Isle of Capri villa...
Before long, so many defective watches were returned that Sears advertised for a repairman. Alvah Curtis Roebuck, 23, who had been earning $3.50 a week fixing watches in the corner of a delicatessen shop in Hammond, Ind., got the job. In 1891, Sears set up a partnership with Roebuck (Sears kept two-thirds control) and rapidly expanded sales by filling his catalogue with every come-on known to the sharp retailers...
...tree to croon a little ditty ("I'm an old goat, but I'm so in love with him"). Then she surprised her guests with the announcement that she plans to marry again. Her third husband-to-be: a 48-year-old Bessarabian-born engineer and radio repairman named Alperovici, whom she calls simply "Honest Boris." "The only thing Boris cannot do," said Gracie, "is sing. We went for a walk this morning and he started singing a Bessarabian love song. I had to tell him to shut up." But, she added, "you should just see his chest...
...than to Hollywood, as Colonna is propelled with quivering mustache, freewheeling eyes and hog-calling tenor through a series of burlesque skits. As a barber, he uses a chamberpot for a shaving mug; on a rocket to the moon, he nuzzles a blonde stowaway; as a TV repairman, he pulls a battered corset from a TV set, crying: "Your condenser is weak!" Best example of Colonna's Klaxon charm: his screech-voiced assault on the popular song, My Heart Cries...
White-haired, Brooklyn-born Bill Harrison, who worked his way up from a $6-a-week A.T. & T. repairman to engineering vice president of the company in 1936, has unraveled crossed wires in Washington before. In 1940 Defense Production Boss Bill Knudsen, looking for a man to boss construction, called up A.T. & T.'s President Walter Gifford. He was not in, so the operator switched the call to Harrison, who offered to go to Washington to discuss the problem. He wound up taking the job himself. Soon he was production chief of the War Production Board, later served...