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Covering the Cuban Revolution With Typewriters
From Westinghouse typist to the Western World's insight into Cuba:Ruby Hart Phillips covered the Cuba Revolution at her typewriter in an office a block from the Presidential Palace in Havana, with two...
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Liberty Valance, Donald Trump and Monuments to Myths
Dorothy Marie Johnson, author of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.One of the most disillusioning experiences of my entire life occurred in a movie theatre in my home town in New Zealand, almost 57...
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Philosopher, Evolutionist, Socialist, Writer: The Multi-Talented Grant Allen...
Grant Allen at his Royal Bar-Lock typewriter in a recess of his study at his villa, The Croft, in Surrey, England. The German microscope, left, was a gift to mark his services to science, orchestrated...
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Octennial of OzTypewriter
Today marks the eighth anniversary of OzTypewriter. In that time it has had 2416 posts and 3.72 million page views. February 27 is an auspicious date:Typewriters continue to serve a vital purpose in...
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The Typewriter Lady Who Took on Australia’s Immigration Cruelty - and Won
Mabel FreerEchoes of Today’s Shameful Treatmentof ImmigrantsMinister Labelled a 'Standing Embarrassment'by His Own PartyOn the morning of Wednesday, June 2, 1937, Mabel Magdalene Freer was sitting at...
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International Women's Day: A Salute to Australia's Typewriting Pioneer Dora...
On International Women’s Day it's appropriate to salute the American-born woman who introduced typewriting as a profession to Australia.Dora Elizabeth Robertson Armitage Cooke was born in St Clair,...
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'Better Than Anyone Else': John O'Hara and his Typewriters
John O'Hara leans on his Remington Rand KMC standard typewriterOn John O’Hara’s gravestone are the words, “Better than anyone else he told the truth about his time. He was a professional. He wrote...
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Betsy Beaton, The Boy With Green Hair and the Underwood 6 Typewriter
On the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, I went through an exhaustive exercise of exploring the Internet’s many failings, its virtues and the boundless opportunities it offers.The exercise...
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A Need for the Right People for the Wrong Occasion
Tom Scott's tribute to long-serving New Zealand political journalistIan Templeton (1929-) on Templeton's retirement.New Zealand is in the news for all the wrong reasons today, but one can have some...
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World's Youngest Typewriter-Using Published Author: Now a Canadian Think Tank...
Bill Robson, 11, types one of his adventure tales in 1970.In the Barr Smith Library of the University of Adelaide in South Australia, there is an illustrated book – actually three pint-sized adventure...
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THE AXEMAN COMETH: St Patrick’s Day Odyssey - Out of the Forest and into...
Les Gilsenan on the jiggerboard.On this day half a century ago, I found myself on a road in the middle of a pine forest, in the middle of nowhere, with no idea where I was headed or how I was going to...
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Blood on the Tracks: Is Rupert a Racist at Heart? Murdoch’s 62-year Record on...
John Newfong at his Olivetti Dora portable typewriter.In 1971 Rupert Murdoch's editors employed and then got rid of Newfong, the first Aboriginal journalist to work in this country's established print...
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Litton Drags its Caravan Through the Typewriter Desert
Inveterate Imperial typewriter collector Richard Amery will be a little down in the dumps today, following the failure yesterday of the Australian Labor Party - which he represented honourably in the...
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The Fall of the Shah and the Death of Manual Portable Typewriters
OUT, DAMNED TYPEWRITERSFrederick Wilbert O'Green (1921-1998, real family name Ogren), was president of Litton Industries when the company decided to sell its typewriter division to Volkswagen in 1979....
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Most Popular Models of Manual Portable Typewriters, 1980-90
For four years, from 1985 to 1988, the Brother Charger IIwas the most popular manual portable typewriter in newspaper advertising.Sales of manual portable typewriters in the decade after Litton...
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This is the End, My Friend, of Imperial Typewriters
One has to hand it to indefatigable Imperial typewriter collector Richard Amery, of Sydney. He’s nothing if not persistent in his relentless quest to find out what became of his beloved typewriter...
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"Cracklin' Remie" Portable Typewriter
I've been experimenting with a couple of new types of spray paint (new at least to me) in the past few days. First I tried a "marble effect" paint without really knowing what I was doing. The idea with...
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The Ace Irish Swindler & Me
The man at the Olivetti Praxis 48 electric typewriter, with W.C. Fields looking over his shoulder, is the Irish dramatist and essayist Hugh Leonard (1926-2009). He’s working in his studio in Dalkey in...
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Pioneering Photojournalists and their Typewriters
Charles Rollin Brainerd at his typewriterand Henry Hamilton Bennett with his camera in 1889.Photojournalism is said to have started in the middle of the 19th Century, more than 20 years before the...
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THE PROFESSIONAL SPORT OF TYPEWRITERS: Scouting and Scoring of Speed Typists
Speed typing tests in the personnel office of theRemington Typewriter Company at 327 Broadway, New York City, in 1900.The Buffalo World’s Fair of 1901 is primarily remembered for the assassination of...
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