A type of man

"I'll say you're a first class typist ..."                                                                     — Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954)

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HBD Ennio Morricone and RIP (November 10, 1928 – July 6, 2020). “My favourite type of pizza is a Napoletana: tomatoes, mozzarella, and very few anchovies. It must have a thin base.”

HBD Jon Batiste (November 11, 1986). “Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a  hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of  the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.”

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Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez AKA Diego Rivera (December 8, 1888 - November 24, 1957) with Frida Kahlo in New York.

Jose Emilio Pacheco (January 30, 1939 - January 26, 2014): “I keep thinking that poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence, In a secret place between two people, Almost always between two strangers.”

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Jose Revueltas (November 20, 1914 – April 14, 1976)

 A lifelong Mexican militant whose political activities stretched from the 1930s Communist Party to the 1968 student movement—after being sent to prison for the first time at the age of 14. His writing career included prize-winning novels that lay bare the underbelly of Mexican society, as well as screenplays for noir films during Mexican cinema’s Golden Age.

You can read about more about Jose in this Paris Review article, Mexico’s Marxist Prophet.

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GABO: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (March 6, 1927 –  April 17, 2014). “If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

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Pedro Infante Cruz (November 18, 1917 – April 15, 1957)

One of Pedro’s typewriters at Centro Cultural Pedro Infante parte.

"Mi querida vieja: Espero en Dios estaran todos con salud, yo aqui echando gritos pero con un éxito arrollador gracias a Dios y a tus Resos. Eso que me dijistes que tienes no tiene importancia yo tenía una cosa en el frenillo de la lengua y quedé como si nada así que note apures. Te daras cuenta que te estoy escribiendo con máquina pero es que me la regalaron y te voy a llevar una muy linda chiquitita que te va a encantar. Yo tu sabes que no se estas (palabra tachada por Maria Luisa) luego no le atino a las letras y se me quedan los dedos entre las teclas, pero bueno yo no me apuro ni me da cuidado yo nomás echo para delante y a toda Madre. Como la ves? tu no te fijes en mi Ortografía eso es lo unico que nunca en mi (palabra tachada por Maria Luisa) vida voy a aprender."

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George Harrison (February 25, 1943 - November 29, 2001)  and friend (let me know if you know who it is).

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Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936).  As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg and demonstrated that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress.“

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) as reporter, Bob Woodward, in All the President's Men is a 1976 American political thriller film about the Watergate scandal.

Reporters Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) and Bob Woodward (Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) in the Washington Post newsroom in 1973. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis.

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Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) ...Louis often signed his letters "Red beans and ricely yours ..."

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Federico Garcia Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936): ”Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.”

Ernest Hemingway, (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961): “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010): “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

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Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 - March 2, 1991)

Traveler’s Folding Item, Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1916: "I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. "

Jean-Paul Belmondo (April 9, 1933 - Present)

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Royal Astronaut Sprite model typewriter on Apollo 10 (I believe), 1969.

Two men and one typewriter, in flight. Was that economy class?

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor disembarking in London’s Heathrow Airport with an Olivetti Valentine typewriter, 1970.

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Allen Ginsberg at Typewriter, San Francisco, 1956

Photo by Peter Orlovsky (American, 1933 – 2010)

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Joe Strummer (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002)

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Black Panther Founder, Bobby Seale, (born Robert George Seale, October 22, 1936). Photo from Howard L. Bingham’s Black Panthers 1968.

“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” Medgar Evers, (July 2, 1925 – assasinated June 12, 1963)

Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960): “[Our| America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness.”

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Malcolm X and Alex Haley