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> From: Martin C. Tangora
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:32 AM
> My father, Albert Tangora (1903-1978),
> was the fastest typist, or one of the two fastest,
> of the era before electric typewriters (1941).
> His record was 142 net 5-stroke words
> per minute for an hour, and it still stands,
> for a "manual" machine.
This is very cool. I am fascinated by it.
They talk a lot in baseball about feats that may never be achieved and records that will never be broken. I had not thought about it before, but this is another kind of record that is likely never to be broken, because its time has passed.
It's hard to imagine what he might have done with a computer keyboard [reduced it to a spooge (thank you Rude for my word of the day) of molten plastic?].
Did your father do anything "productive" with this talent like transcribe presidential speeches live for documentation in the Library of Congress, or was his career primarily in promotion as a roving freak of nature, like Lance Armstrong only different?
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