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...Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...
...three badmen-convicts, in fact-become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from France is a snarling cousin, to oust papa from the business he has botched. Along with the cousin is his coldblooded nephew, who is jilting...
...play a glamorous actress and, in one scene, her sister, who has always taken a back seat. The actress has almost-but never quite -married many men, because her heart belongs to her first love (Tom Helmore). Discovering this, her middle-aged fiance (Paul McGrath) turns into a Mr. Fixit. Actress Rogers' costumes are one of the few real assets of the evening, along with her amazingly youthful looks and Actor Helmore's pleasantly natural playing...
...amazement, that its cashiers were systematically overcharging everyone. When other readers complained about tenement "fire traps," Selby checked into the city ordinances, and soon landlords of 113 buildings were hauled up for violations. From then on, tips flooded in and Columnist Selby became Philadelphia's Mr. Fixit...
...Fixit. For whatever good it might do, Adhemar was careful to drop in on War Minister Canrobert Pereira da Costa and Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, both presidential possibilities themselves. One rumor had him offering the foreign ministry to Elder Statesman Oswaldo Aranha. Said Aranha: "Pooh-pooh...