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...postwar decade the do-it-yourself craze has become a national phenomenon. The once indispensable handyman who could fix a chair, hang a door or patch a concrete walk has been replaced by millions of amateur hobbyists who do all his work-and much more-in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business. The hobbyists, who trudge out of stores with boards balanced on their shoulders, have also added a new phrase to retail jargon...
...Compleat Handyman. In his home workshop, the compleat handyman usually starts out buying a little $25 utility drill to act as a portable sander, buffer and saw. If he wants to make furniture, he discovers he needs a bigger, stationary tool for ripsawing heavy pieces of wood, buys himself an arbor saw for $150. Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs...
...Penmark becomes fully aware of her daughter's character. Before she can bring herself to act, Rhoda burns alive the sleeping handyman who has guessed her part in the drowning. What her mother learns about her own share in Rhoda's guilt, what she does about it and how Rhoda makes out are non-cricket revelations. But The Bad Seed cannot be put aside without lingering shivers...
With authors Chodorov and Fields employing almost every stock comedy angle, the case has no alternative but to play the comedian continually. The typical American family of Anniversary Waltz represents an inconceivable collection of wits, from the husband to the handyman. The play races along through jokes and slapstick with no member of the cast willing o able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after able to take a straight man part. It leaves the audience limp after one act and pondering the question of which party, authors or cast, can keep up the pace...
...accomplice in the holdup-slaying of a Detroit housewife. McCormick listened to Galloway's story, then for five weeks checked the facts himself. He dug up witnesses who said that at the time of the murder, Galloway was working at his job as a porter and handyman in a Detroit restaurant. An anonymous phone tip led him to another witness, who admitted he was at the scene of the murder and that Galloway was not involved. Finally, he found one man in prison and another not yet arrested whom the evidence "strongly indicated . . . may have been guilty...