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
The Michael Nesmith Radio Special The Michael Nesmith Radio Special In 1980, Pacific Arts issued "The Michael Nesmith Radio Special" to promote Nesmith's album "Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma". Because "Infinite Rider" was originally designed as a multimedia project, the radio special was designed to increase awareness of Nesmith's audio-visual productions, as well as promote the album. The radio special comprises segments of an interview with Nesmith intercut with tracks from "Infinite Rider". Within the interview, Nesmith discusses The Monkees. The discussion of his (then-)former band was the first acknowledgement Nesmith made since his 1970 album, "Magnetic South". As with many of Nesmith's compositions,