Word: fixit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier Georges Pompidou, the National Assembly's tennis-playing President Jacques Chaban-Delmas and ex-Premier Michel Debré. Recently elected as a Deputy from Reunion Island, Debré cannily refused the confining job of faction leader of the Gaullists in order to establish him self as Mr. Fixit for problems throughout the country. Under the spur of Debré's competition, Pompidou is now functioning more like a politician and less like a banker turned statesman. In nationwide broadcasts, he has proved to be a relaxed, avuncular performer and has displayed wit as well as competence...
...reels roll on, Dad, the inept irascible bumbler, turns into a smarmy Mr. Fixit, and even gets his tooth-traumatized daughter a date with Fabian, the tonsil titan of the teenette set. who breathes all over a song called Cream Puff. In one genuinely funny sequence, John McGiver. as a laconic bird watcher, cues Stewart, during a predawn to post-dusk ordeal, on how to spot man's feathered friends. Since there are no recognizable humans in it, Mr. Hobbs is really strictly for the bird watchers...
TOBIAS AND HIS BIG RED SATCHEL (by Sunny B. Warner; Knopf; $3) reflects every moppet's image of himself as a grown-up Mr. Fixit. Toting around a battered old doctor's bag almost as big as he is, Tobias finds novel uses for its contents. With his saw he rescues an absent-minded carpenter who had built a house without a door. With his shovel he refloats a stranded whale. Author-Illustrator Warner's pictures are as winningly harum-scarum as her resourceful little hero...