Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Continuous Performances. In Detroit, asking police for help, George Van Kula reported that an anonymous prankster had 1) directed to his address two coal trucks, four TV repairmen, two florists, six milkmen, a plumber, a veterinarian, two tow trucks, two exterminators, 2) advertised in the Detroit News that his apartment was for rent, cheap; 3) inserted a want ad stating that Van Kula needed a "dandy man, good wages...
Your Feb. 8 "One Shrill Call," belittling the efforts and motives of political campaigning, is an old, popular, sadistic sport . . . Why should not politicians seek office by proclaiming they are needed for it? After all, they have to eat, too. Certainly no one belittles the butcher or the plumber for seeking their jobs. Why must the politicians be given such a roasting? It is fortunate indeed that there are enough good American men and women with courage enough to undergo the siege of insults thrown at their efforts, the cries of incompetence, the insinuations of graft, and the snickering...
Died. James Leo ("One-Eye") Connelly, 84, who devoted a lifetime to gate-crashing and became a sports-page legend during the '20s; in Zion, Ill. One eye blinded in a boyhood boxing accident, Connelly masqueraded as a sandwich vendor, iceman, or plumber's helper to outwit gatemen and gain free admission. Before he retired at 65, he boasted that during his career he had seen every Kentucky Derby, all but three heavyweight-championship bouts, countless football and baseball games, on principle had never paid for or accepted a ticket...
Where it succeeds, the film relies on the audience's tendency to laugh when it feels superior. Like Charlie Chaplin, Mr. Potts is funny because he is pitiful. As a plumber over his head in power politics, he represents all of us who are entangled in a cold war too big for us to understand or control. We laugh because, for once, we see somebody more bewildered and hopeless than...
...Holloway, who has spent $45 million on expansion since World War II, is a good deal more than a plumber. Crane, with 13 plants scattered across the U.S., Canada and England, now makes or distributes everything from colored bathroom fixtures, which it was the first (1928) to pioneer, to diffusion valves for atomic-bomb plants, from air-conditioning units to radiant heaters. Since Holloway became president in 1946, sales have risen four times over the prewar level to 1951's record $322.9 million and a $16 million net after taxes. Last year sales dropped off slightly to $319 million...