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The Hottest Typewriter in Football: The 'Drop Kick' Who Lived the American Dream
Frank 'Tricky Dick' Hyland ...*All-American football star**Olympic Games rugby champion**Called the "Babe Ruth of rugby"**Sub-even time 100-yards sprinter**Admired by peers from Damon Runyon to Jim...
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Photolith Typewriters
From The Stanford Daily, Volume 87, Issue 26, 17 April 1935.From The Stanford Daily, Volume 86, Issue 66, 31 January 1935Â
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Etaoin shrdlu, anyone?
Albert Einstein sets the first lines of a report for a new Jewish newspaper, printed in English, in New York on January 15, 1934.At that time he was a professor at Princeton University.The first known...
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Typewritten Letters: Papa, Scott, Albert and Woody
A fortnight ago in New York, Lion Heart Autographs auctioned typewritten letters which included missives from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Einstein and Woody Guthrie. Einstein wrote to...
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Back to the Future Day: October 21, 2015 - The Typewriter Revolution Arrives
Doc was just about to pack the Olympic SM3 portable typewriter into the DeLorean when Marty and Jennifer raced out to tell him his guide book for the future, The Typewriter Revolution by Richard Polt,...
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The Mystery of Patrick Moore's Woodstock Typewriter
Legendary eccentric English astronomer and cat lover Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) was the man who mapped the Moon before Man had even stepped foot on it. Indeed, his map helped Man step foot on it....
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Vale Maureen O'Hara (1920-2015)
Actress Maureen O'Hara has died in Boise, Idaho, aged 95. She was born Maureen FitzSimons on August 17, 1920, on Beechworth Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin.  She was one of the last surviving stars from the...
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Little Typists
Richard Polt has lot to say, around some fantastic photos, on the subject of "young insurgents" in a section called "Kids at the Keys" in his wonderful book The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's...
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On the Death of Grantland: US Sportswriters and their Typewriters
To mark the sad end of Grantland (named in honour of the great American typewriter-belting sports writer Grantland Rice), here's a look at 91 US sports writers and their typewriters from over the...
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Portable Typewriters for The Lady in the Van
The Bradfordians will perform the stage play of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van at St Margaret’s Hall in Bradford-on-Avon in west Wiltshire, England, this week, just as the movie of the same play...
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Two Million Reasons to Keep ozTypewriter Going
I'm experimenting with cleaning out the dirt from the paintwork. As yet, I haven't gone over the decal at the front (not ready to risk it), so it's easy to see the difference between the paintwork...
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The Hammond Typewriter Shuttle at the Bottom of Sydney Harbour
A Hammond typewriter typeshuttle, a vital piece of evidence in an infamous Australian court case from 100 years ago, lies at the bottom of Sydney Harbour, near Luna Park and the Milson's Point ferry...
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Is it Ever Right to Tell Big Fat Lies?: How Social Media can be so Malevolent
Chris Groz's illustration which accompanied Shane Maloney's hugely inaccurate article in The Monthly in June 2012. The Maloney piece gave some people who should have known a lot better (or bothered to...
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Vicesimus Lush: The Ghost Who Stole the Blickensderfer Typewriter from a...
Vicesimus Lush: sounds like a drunken debauchee rather than an Anglican archdeacon. But a man of the cloth he was, no doubt named after the English essayist and minister Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821)....
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The Typewriter, Considered as a Bee-Trap: The Fated Johnstons
Poet and author Martin Johnston's parents, Australian writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift, Clift at her Remington portable typewriter, in London, early 1950s.From the poetry collectionThe...
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Little Lords and Ladies of the Flies
Richard Polt's wonderful, thought-provoking post on "On Objectification" yesterday led me to The Philosophy Teacher's Typicalytyping blog and in due course to his/her insightful The Typosphere Rumbles...
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The Prince of London: What a Guy!
This cat on the card is Arnold, painted by Carol Biss in 2010. He looks a tiny bit like one of Richard Polt's new cats.We have a prince from London visiting New Zealand and Australia right now. He's a...
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The Legendary, Intrepid Californian War Correspondent Tom Treanor and his...
From Doral Cheonweth's tributes to war correspondents killed in World War IIand Larry Harnisch's The Daily MirrorWhen it came to getting accredited to cover battles in World War II, he was seeded by US...
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Tom Treanor's Kiwi Mate, Shepheard's Bar and the Doomed Court-Martial
These photographs were taken by New Zealand World War II cameraman Mervyn Daniel Elias toward the end of the Battle of Tunisia in May 1943. They show so-called tirailleurs sénégalais fighting against...
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