Okay, this must be the most bad-ass typist ever. Her name is Lenore Fention. The deadpan ending of this made me laugh out loud. (This is from a 1943 U.S. Navy training video.)pic.twitter.com/FH5yZROa4g
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Choice quotes from Lenore: “How you type is more important than what you type.” and “Don’t fight your typewriter, you can’t win. Don’t blame your typewriter, BLAME YOURSELF.”
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She died twelve years ago, at the age of 92: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=lenore-fenton-macclain&pid=3311141 … And the Electromatic typewriter – perhaps even the very same she’s typing on in the video – is now in the Smithsonian:http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1064590 …
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Okay, Lenore Fenton is basically a superhero at this point. Look at this typing wizardry!pic.twitter.com/xFjU8N7usO
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On top of all this, Lenore Fenton was in the middle of the Dvorak controversy, too. (So many things are factually wrong in this paragraph, but the dancing bit made me smile.) She’d have been an amazing person to interview… :·/pic.twitter.com/rW3p65ihpN
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Also, if this means she was able to type quickly on QWERTY *and* Dvorak, my lord… hats off. Best. Typist. Ever.
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I created a Wikipedia page for Lenore to give her some credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Fenton_MacClain … (which feels great to do also in part because the typewriting world is so filled with testosterone).
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Holding Lenore Fenton’s book in my hand! (Will scan and upload to Internet Archive soon.)pic.twitter.com/YlDSX1fApf – at San Francisco Public Library - Main Library
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Oh, yessss, someone recently digitized the fourth part of the instructional movie; this one shows Lenore Fenton and the state-of-the-art 1944 methods of making copies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ve5JnTUzvo … (Always here for your 1944 breaking news!)
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