Word: fixit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like leaning over the back fence chatting," explains Earl Selby, a top reporter and columnist on the Philadelphia Bulletin. "The problems may not be earthshakers, but they hit the neighbor where he lives." Selby's chats take place Mondays through Fridays at 6:25 p.m. on Mr. Fixit, a local show telecast by Station WCAU-TV. Sometimes blond, crew-cut Earl Selby, 37, uses his five minutes to point up some civic horror, as when he appeared unshaven and in tattered clothes to talk about Skid Row and what it costs the city-$650,000 in relief...
...Fixit has a sponsor (Philadelphia Gas Works Co.) and an audience estimated to include 43% of the adults viewing at that hour. It started last March after an adman named Franklin Roberts saw Reporter Selby on a straight newscast. Roberts told Selby he was a poor commentator because he was not reporting what he knows best: Philadelphia, its people and its problems. He suggested a show growing out of the "In Our Town" column that Selby writes six days a week for the Bulletin, and they finally settled on the column's "Mr. Fixit" service idea...
...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...