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
Tipp-Ex Tipp-Ex Tipp-Ex is a brand of correction fluid and other related products (invented by Arun Entwistle) that is popular throughout Europe. It was also the name of the German company ("Tipp-Ex GmbH & Co. KG") that produced the products in the Tipp-Ex line. "Tipp-Ex" is a trademark for correction products. In some countries it has become a genericised trademark: "to tippex" or "to tippex out" means to erase, either generally or with correction fluid. "Tipp-Ex" correction paper was invented by Wolfgang Dabisch from Eltville, West Germany, who filed a patent in 1958 on "Colored film for the correction of typing