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...Unable to get either passage or refund from the Italian Line, she hurried to Havre and laid siege to the U. S. Lines office. After ten hours, company officials surrendered, signed on Miss Scheh as a member of the U. S. Manhattan's crew (official stenographer and typist), let her work her way home...
...Tarkingtonian adolescent. Onslow Stevens as well as Cromwell has steered clear of extremes. His Morell id not too pompous and too fond of his own voice to be loved by Candida. And Dorothy Sands is the old-maid incarnate in the role of Miss Proserpine Garnett, Morell's typist who is as much in love with him as all his feminine flock...
Ginger Rogers was named Virginia Katherine McMath. Shortly after her birth, her mother separated from her electrical engineer husband, Eddins McMath, and, taking small Ginger, went to Kansas City, where she got a $9-a-week job as typist in Montgomery Ward. Thereafter Ginger's childhood was nomadic. Jobs took her mother all over the country but always nearer the movies. In 1919, Mrs. McMath, by this time divorced, married a Dallas insurance man named John Rogers. In 1922 the family moved to Fort Worth...
...simplified Dvorak keyboard, all the vowels and punctuation marks are struck by the left hand, the most frequently used consonants by the right. Thus no word or syllable can be written by the right hand alone, very few by the left alone. Moreover, 70% of a typist's strokes are on the home row. Dr. Dvorak claims that university students can attain 50 words a minute in one semester on his keyboard (months sooner than on the standard keyboard), that misspellings decrease. Last week the Chicago results gave him new hope...
...Edgar Wallace did not reach maturity until he was past 40. His full flowering came after the War. A new publisher saw Wallace's mass-production possibilities. He divorced his mousy wife, married his shrewd secretary, 23 years his junior, shaved his Old Bill mustache, hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet of shiny big cars...