Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tomato so thin you can read a newspaper through it? Well, I sent in my $10.27 plus postage and handling to Fly-by-Day Enterprises, P.O. Box 18,274, Ocean View, Kans., and it's been seven years now and I haven't heard. Can you help...
...Works in Corning, N.Y., a graceful old mill town tucked, as one company official puts it, "in the valley of sand and imagination." Action Line met more than 100 fellow problem-solving columnists-who are also known as Mr. Fix-It, Mr. Action, Call for Action, Action for You, Help Desk, Hotline, Tell It to George and other reassuring names-as well as assorted government and industry consumer-movement watchers...
George Appleton, who runs the Nashville Banner's Help Desk column, is most concerned about missing persons. He once helped an old Eskimo woman in Alaska trace her son and daughter to Nashville two decades after the mother found herself helpless and separated from her family following an accident that left her a double amputee living on welfare. Not all such stories end happily. One holiday season Appleton successfully traced an aging Nashville woman's long-strayed son to North Carolina, but the son did not want to see his mother. "She took it poorly," Appleton says sadly...
...line between a routine consumer complaint and a personal problem of soap-opera complexity can be as thin as newsprint. When Don Sockol of the Providence Journal-Bulletin's Action Line tried to help a women's softball team find money to pay for $350 worth of warmup jackets after the sponsor backed out, Sockol ended up mediating a personality conflict between the coach and the sponsor, who agreed to return. Sockol also helped heal a festering labor dispute at a local mill when he got union leaders to talk to management officials about who would...
...assembled Action Lines claimed a high solution rate-typically, three out of four problems they tackle-and a few recounted triumphs that would help win a district attorney reelection. Herb Brown says he has run unscrupulous hearing-aid salesmen out of New Jersey, and aided in the conviction of a fraudulent home repairer on 17 counts of embezzlement. Sharon Tucker of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Hotline column helped a woman settle out of court with an auto mechanic who had charged $384 for a transmission job advertised...