Word: typist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Others breeze in from the coal-mining North Country. There are bluff Yorkshiremen like the P.M. or Actor Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney from Manchester, Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who wrote A Taste of Honey in Salford at the age of 18, and Rita Tushingham, 24, a onetime Liverpool typist who played the lead in the 1961 movie. And, of course, Liverpool also produced the four ingenuous teen-agers whose Mersey beat has circled the world, earned them a group fortune that now stands at $6,000,000 and won them medals from Queen Elizabeth...
...hope that Unknown Typist Joan Sutherland left Sidney [July 23] for some reason other than that she could spell no better than TIME. Blimey, blokes, call it Sydney just once...
Fourteen years ago Joan Sutherland left Sidney as an unknown typist. Last week she returned home as La Stupenda, heading her own opera company, with 145 members, for a four-week tour of Australia. Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good. Bewigged footmen in period costume bowed as they opened the doors of Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Jaguars and Daimlers for elegant women wearing chinchilla and diamond tiaras, distinguished men in white tie and tails as they passed through the chilly Australian winter night into Her Majesty's Theater. The glittering...
Rebellious Reporters. From California to Florida, composing rooms are humming and clicking to the tune of modern electronics. No longer must a printer justify lines by hand -expanding or contracting them to fit the width of a column. Nor need he worry about hyphenating words. Instead, a typist punches out a tape that is then fed into a computer. Out comes another tape, this one justified and hyphenated, ready to be fed into an automatic high-speed typesetter...
...American and Bendix, who pay dearly for the services of what Mrs. Hurst characterizes as "the Rolls-Royce of employment agencies." Brook Street carefully tests its girls for professional skills, personality and appearance, accepts only one out of every three it interviews, and refuses to place a shorthand typist unless she has had a minimum of three years' experience. In setting up tests, Mrs. Hurst at first demanded that applicants equal her own typing skill. She soon realized, of course, that "no one was likely to be as good as I, so I had to put up with...