The Monkees (TV series) project by his agent. Englishman Davy Jones was a former jockey who had achieved some initial success on the musical stage, appearing with the cast of "Oliver!" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" the night of the Beatles' live American debut. He was appearing in Columbia Pictures productions and recording for the Colpix record label and had been identified in advance as a potential star for the series. Texan Michael Nesmith's mother Bette Nesmith Graham had invented a correction fluid and founded the company that became Liquid Paper. He had served a brief stint in the U.S. Air Force and had
Chinese typewriter of access to the services of skilled writers familiar with Chinese characters. Chinese typewriters made in Japan entered the market in the 1920s, with the "Wanneng" () brand introduced by the Nippon Typewriter Company in 1940 during the Second Sino-Japanese War becoming the "de facto" standard. After Japan's defeat and the subsequent nationalization of typewriter companies by the Communist government, locally made models based on the "Wanneng" continued to dominate the market, particularly the "Double Pigeon" (). The Ming Kwai typewriter is an electromechanical typewriter invented and patented by Lin Yutang. The patent, No. 2613795, was filed on April 17,