Hints and tips:
...Paul David, a Stanford economics professor, once wrote of the “absorbing delights and quiet terrors of exploring QWERTY worlds” — technologies that have become popular despite flaws....
...Cut to 2007 and I received a call from the American novelist Paul Auster....
...Established in 1932 by Abraham Schweitzer, it is now in the hands of his son Paul and grandson Jay, described by fans as “the last OGs” of the typewriter world....
...Hanks is not the first writer to harbour an almost fetishistic passion for Remingtons, Olivettis and Underwoods....
...He immediately set about hiring the scouts that would lead him to find the golden generation of 1992, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Nicky Butt and the Neville brothers....
...In fact, according to Nicolas Pictet, the partner in charge of Asia, it has been pursuing a version of the old Remington shaver adverts: liking the product so much they bought the company....
...Though certainly less high-profile, Mr Bacon comfortably ranks alongside George Soros and Paul Tudor Jones in terms of market-beating skill....
...He hasn’t quite “bought the company” as Kiam did when he discovered how much he liked Remington shavers....
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