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...write his usual six hours a day. Then in middle age, he got writer's cramp. He bought a typewriter, and, of course, needed a servant to operate the thing. So now James was more and more confined to his home in Sussex, pacing the room, dictating to the typist and the clacking machine. James became a prisoner of progress...
...performers are shuffled through, and 300 are called back for further auditions; eventually, perhaps one or two will be cast. Yet even the losers, as they come blinking into the sunlight, say it has been worthwhile, and they use almost identical words. "You never get anything," explains a dancer-typist, "unless...
...when we grew up," recalls Marshall, the only member of her family to attend college. "There was just no question about growing up to be somebody." Then her father, an oilfield worker, became disabled. "We wound down to poor," she says, "and I got ambitious." As a teenage typist at local law firms, she started visiting court, eventually worked her way through law school at the University of Texas and went straight to Baker & Botts, where she specializes in contract and insurance litigation...
...first "typewriters," as the operators were originally called, but women soon took over the task, which was supposed to give them entry to the American workplace. As it turned out, typewriters ultimately tied women down to uninteresting mechanical jobs, proving once again that men are smarter than machines. The typist in modern folklore is often given a melancholy identity, like the typist in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land, who takes her lover as wearily as she lights her stove. On a happier side, Rose Fritz, the national speed-typing champion from 1906 to 1909, never lost...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...