Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most men and all women have no further interest in or knowledge of what makes the car go. When something goes wrong, all they know is that the car is making "a funny noise." At the start of a new bumper-to-bumper touring season, Auto Repairman Frank Burwell of Peoria, Ill., who recently won a nationwide contest for mechanics conducted by Chrysler, has compiled a handy glossary of auto talk for the mechanically unsophisticated...
...rapid succession, leaving him, a frail orphan, to scratch for a living. With no family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because he saw more future in the infant electric industry. In eight years he had married and had a good position as a wiring inspector. But again he quit, scraping together $97.50 to start a tiny business making an electric socket he had designed...
Born. To Manda Jane Pearson, 37, harried housewife, and Marion Pearson, 43, itinerant TV repairman: a reported U.S. record-setting seventh consecutive set of twins, their 17th and 18th children (of whom 13 survive); in Jacksonville, Fla.'s Duval Medical Center...
Died. Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, owner of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, manufacturer of low-cost radios and refrigerators and of the midget Crosley auto, a 30-h.p., $800 precursor of the compacts; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A onetime chauffeur and telephone repairman who developed the $22 million Crosley Corp., he moved from venture to venture, never earning more than $20 a week until he hit 30. "If I've batted .300, that's lucky," said Crosley, who batted considerably less with his ball club, saw it win but two pennants, finish in the second division...
...years ago. He talked to dealers around town: "There are no secrets in Rome. It's the most gossipy city in the world." He kept hearing the name of a certain Alfredo Fioravanti. Fioravanti, who is just Parsons' age, was eking out a living as a repairman of antiques and jewelry. Parsons got to know him well, and in time had his story...