Word: handyman
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...stop him, Coach Barclay will again use defensive handyman Chip Gannon, who helped keep the Eli high-scorer down to 11 points last Saturday. Squad members and Coaches Barclay and Harper viewed movies of the Yale game for a full hour yesterday at the Blockhouse, following a brink defensive workout upstairs...
...Free Seats. Manufacturers, led by the P.M.A., screamed like wounded banshees. P.M.A.'s founder, rock-ribbed old "Uncle Joe" Grundy, sent a handyman to have words with Big Jim. Ordinarily, Republican governors do as Uncle Joe says. But Big Jim, after hearing the Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...
Konstantin Simonov, Russia's most successful literary handyman (three theaters were running his plays simultaneously in Moscow last month), recently wrote a novel that seemed to have all the correct ingredients. The Soviet hero returned home after two years in the U.S. to find Russia overwhelmingly more attractive. But the pontiffs weren't satisfied. Simonov's Smoke of the Fatherland, just out, was written off as "immature and unsound." The surprising reason: the Propaganda Committee of the Communist Patty said he hadn't proved his thesis...
...stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...
...husky nightclub handyman shoved the Steinway out to the center of the floor. The lights went down; over a shattering fanfare, a voice roared out the name that in the past month has become the talk of Manhattan's barfly set. Nellie Lutcher, a buxom 5 ft. 9 in a long white gown, swept...