Byline: Katherine O'Brien The February issue of MIT's Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com) identifies 10 technologies that refuse to die. The list includes analog watches, dot-matrix printers, typewriters, broadcast radio, pagers, ree Byline: Katherine O'Brien ...
Feb. 15--The chairman of L.C. Smith Premier Typewriter Co. issued a famous complaint. Feb. 15--The chairman of L.C. Smith Premier Typewriter Co. issued a famous complaint.
My friend Harry Pugh, who has died aged 74, made a name for himself as a reporter in the days when phones had wires attached and newsrooms were loud with the clatter of typewriters. He was full of laughter and mischief, noisy and opinionated. But above all,...
The Rock Inn holds its Harvest Auction on Sunday September 28 at 7.15pm. There's a chance to support your local pub and community and donations of goods will be gratefully received. Brockholes W I met at the Methodist Church Parlour on Thursday, September 11 when Leslie Thewlis gave...
You Could Own Helen Thomas's White House Typewriter WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Picture yourself in the White House press corps, pounding away on your keyboard after a Presidential briefing on the nation's economy and foreign policy issues. It's time to report your story to the world...
THE AUTHOR of the groundbreaking novel City of Night (1963) and numerous other innovative novels, John Rechy became a writer when, in his mother's bedroom in El Paso, while using a rented typewriter, he wrote a long letter to a stranger describing nights of "sex and liquor and pills and...
EVER DIRK: THE BOGARDE LETTERS edited by John Coldstream Weidenfeld, £25, pp.529, ISBN 9780297852414 £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 The art of letter-writing being in terminal decline and with precious little romance in emails or mobile-phone texts, this fascinating collection of Dirk Bogarde's letters is a...
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Marta Hiatt would like to take you on a sentimental journey back to a time of telegrams, radio days, stay-at-home moms, vinyl records and manual typewriters. Hiatt's nostalgic collection of fond memories of life in the early part of the...
LONDON AFP — A grenade that puts out fires, a self-pouring teapot, periscope spectacles, a peach peeler and a moustache protector are among oddball inventions on show at the British Library. The Weird and Wonderful Inventions display, which opened Thursday and runs until November 10 at the national...
Byline: Denis Kilcommons My fingers aren't what they used to be. They are not as subtle as they once were and I sometimes have trouble opening bottles or tying my shoelaces. Pretty soon I might have to buy clothes with Velcro fastenings. Which might be convenient...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/65b954/office_supplies_u) has announced the addition of the "Office Supplies UK - Portfolio Analysis" report to their offering. The Plimsoll Portfolio Analysis - Office Supplies is a comprehensive evaluation of the UK market. The revised and updated 2007 edition analyses...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c22a09/printing_products) has announced the addition of the "Printing Products & Supplies UK - Portfolio Analysis" report to their offering. The Plimsoll Portfolio Analysis - Printing Products & Supplies is a comprehensive evaluation of the UK market. The revised and...
Like a lot of 12-year-olds, she might want to be a veterinarian when she grows up. "I love animals, and I've had dogs, cats, a turtle," she says. "And it's weird, but I collect elephants. All kinds. Not the living kind. Not yet."...
"When I did Bergerac, I always used to get fist-fights on misty mountain tops with long-haired maidens. It was one of the perks of the job" - Actor John Nettles. "Unfortunately I am allergic to paparazzi and have found the best antidote to that sort of nonsense is...
REMEMBER ENSIGN PULVER In the article on Admiral Spruance in the 2008 May issue, mention is made of Commodore Worrall Carter. He was Comseron 10 and wrote the book figuratively and literally Beans, Bullets and Black Oil. My ship the USS Caelum (AK-106) was assigned to his command....
A Prospect of Beauty and Unjustness I walk down Heerengracht, where pigeons dip their necks like question marks into the fountain. Then left at Long, while the sun slips Toward the sea and the moon takes its place ...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Growing up in the '90s, I thought of Hunter S. Thompson the same way I thought of PJ O'Rourke: an old guy whose articles I skipped when reading Rolling Stone. Later I realized that I could learn a lot more from Thompson's thirty-year-old take on...
Agence France-Presse moderniser When Peter Mackler joined the French news agency Agence France- Presse in 1979, he found a sleepy English service based in Paris where translators pounded away on their typewriters refashioning French-language news stories which were sold by subscription to a...
By Peg Williams THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Bill Calwell has had 876,000 hours to experience life. He has written two books, traveled to every state capital, golfed in three countries and has survived several near-death experiences, including close calls...
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