The family of the Sixties icon announced his passing yesterday in a simple message: “With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes.” The singer and businessman was 78. Although best known for The Monkees TV show and a string of […]
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The secretary who turned Liquid Paper into a multimillion-dollar business
Bette Nesmith Graham invented one of the most popular office supplies of the 20th century. Today, she’s largely been forgotten.
By:
Zachary Crockett
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@zzcrockett
April 23, 2021
On a warm Texas night in 1956, Bette Nesmith later known as Bette Nesmith Graham sat in a garage surrounded by buckets of white tempera paint, empty nail polish bottles, and handmade labels.
She didn’t know it then, but she was on the brink of something magical.
The product she would eventually create
Liquid Paper, a white correction fluid used to conceal handwritten or printed typos would become one of the world’s most popular and enduring office supplies.