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To: Ilaine who wrote (69127)	9/11/2004 2:00:46 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Rather probably never really used a typewriter in his life...Remember the 60's and 70's....Most men had their female secretaries and/or assistants type notes and memos for them. Most men of that era didn't know how to type and if they ever knew, quickly forgot how as soon as they could rate a secretary. Maybe Rather did use an old manual when he was much younger, but by the 70's he could probably have landed on a higher perch, so he could have a secretary do the typing for him. In those old days, the word was secretary....or if they were really senior level secretaries, then they were called 'assistants'..... it wasn't really until the mid-late 80's that secretaries were called Administrative Assistants, or Assistants as their next step up the ladder. Usually, women were the secretaries. Men were called clerks, and the Military was about the only place where men were consistently used as clerks, secretaries, or assistants. There were a few men in private industry as assistants, who did typing for others, but very few.