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...tell him, Mr. Fixit. I stutter." This bromide* has been put to good use by the alert Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would...
...Fixit (Eldon F. Roark) on the Memphis Press-Scimitar gave a pint of his blood to a woman who almost died in childbirth, during the Mississippi flood. He brought in two husky firemen to do likewise. ... In one month he obtained jobs for 300 people, later helped start a free municipal employment bureau. . He found homes for stray dogs; reported street cars that had flat wheels...