It seemed entirely appropriate that on the “Magical Mystery Tour” my wonderful wife Harriet went to so much time and effort to plan and orga...

On Wednesday, December 18, 1968, I was sitting at my desk in the sports department of The New Zealand Herald on Wyndham Street in Auckland,...

Jesse Alexander's 1919 US Passport photo. Jesse Alexander went to his grave in the Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, San Fernando Valley...

Livingston York Yourtee Hopkins was an Ohio-born pioneering cartoonist who worked for the Sydney weekly magazine The Bulletin (1880-2008). ...

It was a bit of a relief yesterday to hand back to their owners three typewriters I'd been working on for the past few weeks: an Underwo...

This fascinating machine was described last week as a “second-hand typewriter” and was on display at the Antik Passion Almoneda, an annual a...

Given this blog was been going for more than 11 years now, I’m pleasantly surprised - and relieved - that the need for me to decline comment...

When I stumbled across this New Yorker  cover from November 11, 1939, by the Armenian artist Constantin Ivanovich Alajálov (left, 1898-1987)...