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Proper Post Posture with Remington Portable Typewriter
Emily Post (1872-1960) was an American author famous for writing about etiquette. Post was born Emily Price in Baltimore. After being educated at home in her early years, Price attended Miss Graham's...
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How Paddy Chayefsky Learned to Type Playscripts
Paddy Chayefsky came out of the US Army's 104th Infantry Division with a Purple Heart and a new first name on February 27, 1946, after almost three years of service in the European Theatre of World War...
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RIP Philip Roth (1933-2018)
Philip Roth was one of the first writers who made me want to write myself. I read Goodbye, Columbus in my early teens, around the time of my "Anthony Marks period", and it remains one of my favourite...
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s Groma Kolibri
Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s Gromo Kolibri portable typewriter is part of the exhibition which opened on May 22 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Gogolevsky Boulevard, to mark...
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Karl Marx and Typewriters
What has Karl Marx got to do with typewriters? Well, not a lot really. As one commentator wrote a short while ago, " ... to young people for whom the Cold War is ancient history, Marxism may seem as...
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The Typewriter Art of Janet Hill
Like many people, it seems, I came across Janet Hill's art serendipitously. In my case it was while sitting in a hospital ward the other day, reading Frankie magazine to while away the time. I could...
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Makeover for an Underwood 5 Typewriter
I've never had much luck when it comes to owning a working Underwood 5 in good condition. I've been on the look-out for one forever. So when I was contacted last week by a Canberran asking me to give...
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Who Links the First Typewriter to Fly, Alexander Graham Bell, the Eastman...
The front page picture story in The Washington Times of May 3, 1911, sadly records Annie Lepley's name incorrectly as "Sepley", no doubt helping to condemn this pioneering typist to a life of relative...
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On Board with the World's Fastest Typist: Otis Blaisdell's Grand World...
Harrison Otis Blaisdell (1886-1960)Otis Blaisdell with an Underwood No 4 in 1910. For his exhibitions across America and around the world, Blaisdell often spurned the use of "souped up"...
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Me and Norman Greenbaum
It's coming up for 14 years now since I completed my "One-Hit Wonders" series in The Canberra Times. I'm still not allowed to forget it. It's rare that a month goes by when someone doesn't ask,...
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Aladdin’s Cave of Typewriters in Canberra
The Remington J (export version of a Junior) was sold briefly in Australia in 1918. They were priced at £14, compared to £24 for a new standard visible Remington, but quickly became a rarity here. In...
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The Homecoming Typewriting Author - Lloyd C. Douglas Goes Back to Columbia...
Lloyd C. Douglas at his Remington Rand typewriterFour days before the June 22, 1938, official release in New York City of the movie White Banners, Warner Brothers came up with the strange idea of...
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Once Upon a Time in the White House: Pioneer Press Secretary Who Put a...
In October 1954, White House Press Secretary in the Eisenhower Era, Jim Hagerty, watches as Dorothy Rochon Powers (1921-2014), legendary reporter with the Spokane Spokesman-Review, types up her story...
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The Poppy-Red Portable Typewriter
POPPY-REDNow everything is Poppy-redPoppy-red, Poppy-redIn loving memoryNow everything is Poppy-redPoppy-red, Poppy-redThe gifts she gave to meIn loving memory, memory- Richard ThompsonHad an urge to...
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Happiness is a Warm Typewriter - 50 Years on from The Beatles' White Album
The Pop-Art Olivetti Valentine came out three months after "The White Album"Geoffrey Lee-Martin: Sent to the South Pole in shame?Can it really be half a century ago? Surely not! How old am I? But I can...
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Gerda Taro and her Remington Model 1 Portable Typewriter
Gerda Taro photographed by Fred Steinusing her Remington Model 1 portable typewriter.Groundbreaking German photojournalist Gerda Taro, crushed to death by a charging Loyalist tank outside Madrid during...
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The Rise of Female Political Journalism Down Under (I)
Pioneering Canberra political correspondent Gay Davidson - born Miringa Gay Yandle at Aranui, Christchurch, New Zealand, and a product of the Christchurch Press- has been inducted into the Australian...
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'The Typewriter' Comes to Canberra
Leroy Anderson’s famous piece “The Typewriter”, composed in 1950 and the theme for one of the late Jerry Lewis’s most watched comic efforts, will be performed in Canberra for the first time next...
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The Wedding Typewriter - a Valentine!
My youngest son Martin is getting married tomorrow, to Laura James. The wedding will take place at Tuggeranong Homestead, where Charles Bean from 1919-25 typed the first two volumes of the Official...
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