Michael Nesmith aunts, and grandmother. Bette took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphical design and developed very good secretarial skills, including shorthand and, auspiciously, touch typing. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as Liquid Paper. Over the next 25 years she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she finally sold to Gillette in 1979 for US$48 million. She died a few months later, aged 56. Nesmith was enrolled in the Dallas public school system in 1949, aged 6. Describing himself as an indifferent student, he nevertheless participated
Monkee Flips and a mono mix of "Love Is Only Sleeping." The sleeve and label are the same for both releases, with only an "RE-1" in the run-off groove of the vinyl denoting the update. The album cover shows a still photograph of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing banjo) from a filmed performance of "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round," featured in the second season episode of "The Monkees" entitled "A Nice Place to Visit." The liner notes included a detailed recap of the Monkees' career, with then-recent interview comments from Nesmith and Dolenz. "Monkee Flips" went out of print as