A touch of typing class - for both women and men!
THE twin topics of “Tech” and typing lessons, featured here recently, hit the Shift key for readers, taking them back to an era before computers ruled OK. An electric typewriter was high-tec, but it took finger-tip power to punch the keys of a manual machine to produce two or three copies by inserting carbon paper between blank sheets of paper.
Please Sir: father’s strange name for son - to win a bet!
IT might well have been the decade’s only wedding of a “Sir” not to have been recorded in so-called quality national daily newspapers like The Times and up-market society magazines led by The Tatler.
The bludgeoning murder mystery that remains a cold case
In recent years so-called cold cases have been the theme of many popular television series as detectives and forensic pathologists seek to unravel long-unsolved murders, using DNA and techniques unimagined or unrefined when the folder was filed away, perhaps forever.
Memory: Veteran John’s war torn stories
FOR any soldier, the order “Lay down your arms” followed by a command to disband must have put minds in turmoil. The next communication was one to instil dread into even the bravest: an officer declared: “It’s every man for himself!”
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