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Sex Changes and a Cisgender Actor in Canberra's Secret City
It’s being spoken of in the same elevated tones as Borgen and House of Cards (even the title backgrounds are similar). But, frankly, it's not shaping as being in anywhere near the same league....
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RIP Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
RIP Muhammad Ali (1942-2016).Definitely the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time).I was delighted to be able to meet him at the New Victoria Theatre in London on November 29, 1974, a month after he had beaten...
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Actual Size of Ali's Fist
I've scanned this image in from the October 1974 Super Sports edition of Esquire magazine, which I've kept all these years, mostly for this startling actual size photo of Muhammad Ali's massive right...
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Lilly Godfrey: More Sinned Against than Sinning
This cartoon, showing a man playing a typewriter as if it was a musical instrument, appeared in the Mirror in Perth, Western Australia, after the Parisian Folies Bergère Revue had played at His...
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Typewriters in Lecture Halls
From Ronny Cheng's "Internationl Student" on ABC TV's Comedy Showroom.It's an Olivetti Lettera 32. Other similar images on this post are from YouTube, of US students really using typewriters in lecture...
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Writers, Actors and Other Celebrities with their Typewriters
Aldous Huxley, Corona 3.Inuit sisters Betty and Olga Call.Eugene Debs, American union leader, dictating to his brother on an Oliver.Joe Yule, Mickey Rooney's father.Norman Corwin, writer, director,...
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From London Typist to Opal Miner in Coober Pedy, Outback Australia: Minnie...
A Gem of a Typist in the Outback: E.O.Hoppé's portrait of Minnie Berrington,from his book The Fifth Continent.Of all the hundreds of people in a vastly eclectic nation the great photographer Emil Otto...
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Madigan – The Man Who Fought Ali Twice, and Lived to Tell the Tale
Antony Madigan was an Australian rugby player who went the distance with both Ali and Our ‘Enry, and beat up the Black AssassinGlobally, in boxing, Muhammad Ali has been and probably always will be...
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STAX II: Meeting Typewriter Technician Warren Ingrey
A little bit of typewriter art that Warren Ingrey quickly typed up at yesterday's STAX meeting in SydneyMeet Warren Frederick Ingrey, who on Tuesday, December 15, 1953, having just attained the minimum...
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RIP Benoîte Groult (1920-2016)
Benoîte Groult in April 1993.Christopher Long in Normandy kindly alerted me to an obituary in The Times of London for French journalist, writer and feminist activist Benoîte Groult, who died in Hyères...
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RIP Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet,...
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Hunt for the Wilder Typer
Barry Crump at his Olivetti Lettera 22 portable typewriterand his then partner, fellow writer Jean Watson, on a fishing trawleroff the North Queensland Coast in late 1962. During their two years in...
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The Smoking Typewriter
My good friend, the New Zealand historian Ron Palenski, sent me this poem, which appeared in The Otago Daily Times in Dunedin last Saturday.David Eggleton (above, born 1952) is a leading New Zealand...
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Australian Prime Ministers and Typewriters: The End of an Era?
Australian Federal politician John Chambers Eldridge at his Underwood 5 typewriter in his electoral office during the last year of his term as the Labor Party Member for Martin. Eldridge (1872-1954),...
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The Sad Saga of Billy Shaw
Billy Shaw's British War Medal and Mercantile Marine Medal were sent to Dunollie in New Zealand in September 1922, almost five years after he had been killed. Image from the National Archives, Kew,...
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Why a Typewriter Connection Helps in Olympic Games Golf
Outdoor sport? Covering the US Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National in 1990.With the British Open golf championship about to begin at Royal Troon - a testing links course which boasts holes...
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Jasper Writes The Times' Advance Obituary
When I did my cadet journalist training, more than half a century ago, I was told that when a newspaper went from broadsheet to tabloid, it was taking its last step before oblivion. The example offered...
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Typewriter Talk LVII
The typewriter museum may be closed down but the typewriter talks go on unabated. Another 2½-hour typewriter presentation took place this morning at Melba (named in honour of Dame Nellie) in Canberra....
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