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...Fixit. "This here runaround" is a phrase instantly recognizable to hundreds of thousands of frustrated U.S. householders-and so is the "they." "They," in the moment of supreme exasperation that coincides with the collapse of an electric dryer on washday, is the apparently easy going, unhurried individual who is striving manfully to maintain the plumbing in the nation's 28 million homes, the wrench-wielding mechanic who administers to the health of the nation's 50 million autos, its 15 million power lawnmowers, its 375 million electric appliances. "They" is the U.S. Repairman in all his disguises...
...John Foster Dullnik, curly-haired Pianist Loverboy-nik. As Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters. But last week, while readers watched Capp spoof Cartoonist Allen Saunders' lovable, motherly missus-fixit Mary Worth as a nasty, interfering old harpy named Mary Worm, the worm turned: Capp himself emerged in Mary Worth drawn as a swinish (ugh!), detestable cartoonist named Hal Rapp...
Barbara Anne Miller '59 won the top James Bryant Conant Prize for her Nat Sci essay entitled "Solem Fixit, Movit Terram." Second prize went to Mary Mitchell Jones '60 for an essay entitled, "The Theory of Verifiability...
...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...