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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.
Long Bennington schoolgirl sends card to poorly prince Duke of Edinburgh Published: 12:05, 04 April 2021
A schoolgirl has received a personal reply from Buckingham Palace after sending a get well card to the Duke of Edinburgh.
Five-year-old Matilda Harper, of Long Bennington, wanted to do something to try and make Prince Philip smile after she saw that he was in hospital.
Mum Rachel said: âMatilda saw the news of the âold manâ and asked who he was. We told her it was the Queenâs husband Prince Philip and he was 99 but very poorly. Obviously she was then worried he might have Covid, but we reassured her that he was only a little poorly and needed a sleepover in hospital to get better.