Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paged yet another art discovery, in Hollywood. Appropriately supercolossal, the story raised a mushroom cloud of dust and then rapidly evaporated. The announcement was made in the office of Hollywood's wide-screen Lawyer Jerry Giesler. There, Chicago Restorer Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky announced that an Italian-born TV repairman named Alfonso Folio, now of Pasadena, had been living for years with $10 million in pictures under...
...poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street panic, when the "Erie Railroad Ring" tried to corner the nation's gold supply. As the crowd surged wildly about him-a prominent banker went mad and had to be restrained by five men-Edison shook hands with a colleague, commented later...
...screen. As the corpses pile up in the living room, citizens who know crime only from the tabloids follow the Eyes like men on the trail of their most desperate hope. And as the evenings pass, one Eye blurs inevitably into another, a TV trouble that even an honest repairman cannot cure...
Sieglaff, who had a date waiting for him, remained calm, encouraged by the assurances of John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy, that the Payne Elevator repairman, though "a little mystified" by the trouble, was doing his best to free Sieglaff, Unofficial sources credit the combine with a Dartmouth visitor Saturday and one sophomore earlier this year...
Sales Pitch. In Randolph Township, N.J., Repairman John Notari was fined $275 for paying teen-agers to break neon signs so that he could get the job of repairing them...