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...refugee author and his family will be accompanied by Shute's faithful private secretary, the Shute gardener and handyman, and his four-seater Percival-Proctor monoplane ("To fly your own plane is the ideal way for an author to travel"). Says Shute: "I want my two daughters to finish their education in Australia. At the end of five years, they can decide if they want to stay in that prosperous but somewhat uncultured country or return to this bleak but cultured and traditional land." Even down under, Shute estimates, he would be able to pocket only a puny...
Died. Vasil Kolarov, 72, bald, bull-necked old Comintern handyman who in July 1949 succeeded Georgi Dimitrov as Premier of Bulgaria; after long illness...
Although Eeriykoot's crime carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, he got only a year, which he will spend as a handyman around the Cambridge Bay police post. His only real punishment will be separation from home. For the primitively clannish Eskimos, that alone, the government hopes, will help make aided suicide an outmoded custom...
...Handyman. In Spokane, Disc-Jockey Robert Swartz, who had offered to do any odd jobs for listeners recognizing a popular tune played backwards, faced the prospect, after 18 people guessed right, of having to roof a house, iron some shirts, mow a lawn, repair a fishpond and weed a strawberry patch...
...Handyman. In Lincoln, Mass., John Joseph Kelliher, 69, decided that he would retire because of poor health, left vacant the jobs of police chief, constable, water commissioner, water department superintendent, moth superintendent, slaughtering inspector, dog officer and sealer of weights & measures...