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...Louis Post-Dispatch Crime Reporter Link was charged with first-degree murder after shooting his part-time handyman during an altercation about the burning of his cottage. The Hermann, Mo. jury accepted his plea of self-defense, acquitted...
...many a helpless housewife and hapless weekend handyman, life's most nagging little crisis is an encounter with a leaky roof, a broken window or a clogged drain. Professional repairmen are hard to find, harder to pay. The do-it-yourself books often produce only frayed tempers, flayed thumbs. Last week, from Los Angeles to Long Island, the unhandy were entrusting chores to a new and spreading U.S. service: the home-repair club...
Mayakovsky had lived as a revolutionary since childhood. His father was an impoverished nobleman reduced to forest ranger and Vladimir was only twelve when he stole his father's shotguns and delivered them to the local rebels for the revolution 1905; At 15, already a Bolshevik handyman in Moscow, he sat in prison for eleven months reading every book he could get hold of. Back in circulation, he went to art school for awhile. But when a painter friend heard one of his poems, he proclaimed young Vladimir a genius, set him on the road to becoming what...
...time they were befriended by Edward Fishel, owner of a small animal-feed processing plant, who hired Rafer's father as a handyman, his mother as a domestic, moved the family out of the boxcar and into a small house. Things went fine until the town's police chief told the Fishels to fire the Johnsons, then threatened Mrs. Johnson herself: "I don't want to see the sun set on any niggers in this town." The Fishels stood their ground, the Johnsons ignored the threats, and nothing further happened. The police chief later left...
While he waited for his bus one chilly Saturday night, Sam Thompson, a bibulous Negro handyman, ducked into Louisville's Liberty End Cafe for a beer and a little fellowship. Under the influence of both and the rhythm of a blaring jukebox, Sam began shuffling a dance step. Two cops who happened by decided that his shuffling was in fact "loitering," and when Sam argued, they added a charge of disorderly conduct. A police court judge fined him $10 on each .charge. Under Kentucky law, Sam Thompson's case was closed-no fine under $20 can be appealed...