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Christmas Booty
From my grand-daughter, sons and their thoughtful partners. I suspect someone's been following this blog, and read about me losing the handles off all my large coffee mugs, including my Xavier...
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Oz Rock and the Hermes Ambassador Typewriter
It's been claimed that the Hermes Ambassador standard typewriter used by John Bogie (aka John Bogey and Johnny B. Fun), the mischievous drummer for Australian pop group the Joy Boys, on the September...
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When Australia Ridiculed Woodrow Wilson's Typewriter Diplomacy
' ... God is always on the side of the biggest typewriter ... My only regret is that I have but one typewriter to lay down for my country'- Scathing satire aimed at "Uncle Sham", aka typewriter...
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RIP David Bowie, RIP Ziggy Stardust,
David Bowie lost an 18-month battle with cancer yesterday. He died two days after his 69th birthday. Bowie, seen above in Absolute Beginners (1986) as the ruthless, amoral ad-man Vendice Partners, was...
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Typing in Tight Spots
In North Africa in 1942 a war correspondent sits in a slit trench, where he works, sleeps and eats.Typing at an improvised table, Buna, New Guinea Campaign, World War II.The Aleutian Islands...
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Och! Aging Ella's Red Remington Portable Typewriter Defies Advance of 'Progress'
For the better part of a century, Ella Wooley wrote letters and more on this Remington typewriter.Tasmanian-based journalist Charles Wooley (born Launceston, 1948), a reporter for Channel Nine's 60...
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The Ames Behind Ames Typewriter Supplies
Arthur Rutherford Ames founded the Ames Supply Company in Chicago in 1902. He was born on August 19, 1876, in Richfield Springs, New York, and died in La Grange, Illinois, on March 13, 1939, aged 62....
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Oscar Used To Like Writers ... Typewriters
Patrick Fugit as William Miller in Almost Famous, Smith-Corona.On the day Australia (thanks to 10 for Mad Max: Fury Road alone) scored a record 15 nominations for the Oscars (the awards show on...
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QWERTY and the Imaginary Son-in-Law
Furphies about QWERTY and the true origin of the typewriter keyboard arrangement have now come full circle, with the publication of Tony Allan's "book of lifts", Typewriter: The History, The Machines,...
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FBI Forgery by Typewriter: Re-Examining the Alger Hiss Case - How Did His...
EXHIBIT A: TYPEWRITER ON TRIALHere is the "immutable witness" - a typewriter. Richard M. Nixon called it the "key witness". Lawyer John Lowenthal revealed it was a "false witness". Conniving Assistant...
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New Zealand's Typewriting, Milk Selling 'King of Poland': The Great Eccentric...
Poets are treated badly in New Zealand, “this land of white savages and All Blacks”, while “they are feted, laurelled and crowned in Merrie England.” - Geoffrey de Montalk, “the all time bad boy of...
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On the Street Where She Walked
I, too, was once an Exile on Main Street.It's not often one sits in a movie theatre in Manuka in Canberra, Australia, and up on the big screen pops the exact same spot where one once stood - on Main...
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How an Underwood wrote Typist-Corporal Bert Manders' Road to Redemption
At one time, when Bert Manders worked with future United States President Herbert Clark Hoover, as a clerk in Hoover's Bewick, Moreing & Co mining organisation on the West Australian Goldfields, he...
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Are You Fair Dinkum?* No, I'm an (Olivetti bashing) Italian! We Sure Are A...
*Are you fair dinkum? = are you "for real"? (in the modern idiom). The post headline is an adaption of a line from the 1966 Australian movie They're A Weird Mob. Mob = Australian term for any group of...
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X-Files, Waitangi Day, Super Bowl L and Will Aulick, the first Gonzo Sports...
X-Files weird? No, what's weird is this bewigged young lady from Christchurch in New Zealand sitting in a bath while typing on an Underwood 5.The Land of Oz dipped its collective straw lid to...
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Yaddo! Typewriters Binding Books
This collection of Philip Roth works caught my eye as I flicked through the January issue of Vanity Fair, a publication which seldom features typewriters any longer and is therefore soon to lose my...
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Year of the (Typewriter) Monkey
The Year of the Monkey began during International Typewriter Appreciation Month, so here's to all those typewriter appreciating monkeys ...In the late 1920s, young aristocratic and upper class ladies...
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The Chicago Typewriter and the St Valentine's Day Massacre
From being admired by cupids to being fired by criminals (and gamers).A Chicago typewriter is three things:1. First and foremost, a typewriter. It began life as the Munson, invented (solely) by Samuel...
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Fregoli! Anomalies of a Whacky Week
Driving along the Lake Burley Griffin foreshore to watch Anomalisa.Spooky. The opening scenes roll and it's a sunrise in Cincy, 2005.Then Michael Stone strides down the same North Kentucky...
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