Typewriter Guru, Martin Tytell passes away

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Blue-ribbon repairman keyed typewriter's role
By Bruce Weber

The New York Times

Article Last Updated: 09/17/2008 02:20:56 AM MDT

NEW YORK — Martin Tytell, whose unmatched knowledge of typewriters was a boon to American spies during World War II, a tool for the defense lawyers for Alger Hiss, and a necessity for literary luminaries and perhaps tens of thousands of everyday scriveners who asked him to keep their Royals, Underwoods, Olivettis (and their computer-resistant pride) intact, died Thursday in the Bronx. He was 94.

The cause was cancer, said Pearl Tytell, his wife of 65 years. She said her husband also had Alzheimer's disease.

When he retired in 2000, Tytell had practiced his recently vanishing craft for 70 years. For most of that time, he rented, repaired, rebuilt, reconfigured and restored typewriters in a second-floor shop in Lower Manhattan, where a sign advertised "Psychoanalysis for Your Typewriter."
There, at Tytell Typewriter Co., he often worked seven days a week wearing a white lab coat and a bow tie, catering to customers such as writers Dorothy Parker and Richard Condon, newsmen David Brinkley and Harrison Salisbury, and political opponents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson





In addition to his wife, Tytell is survived by a daughter, Pamela, of Paris, and a son, Peter, of Manhattan. Peter Tytell, who closed the store about a year after his father retired, is a forensic document examiner who frequently testifies in criminal trials, a natural offshoot of the family business.

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Identity-Theft Victims Owed Duty of Care in Bank Fraud Investigations, N.J. Court Says

Identity-Theft Victims Owed Duty of Care in Bank Fraud Investigations, N.J. Court Says

Mary Pat Gallagher
New Jersey Law Journal
September 11, 2008
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Quogue mayor indicted on fraud charges

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Quogue mayor indicted on fraud charges
By Vera Chinese
Sep 3, 08 10:37 AM

Quogue Village Mayor George Motz pleaded not guilty last Thursday afternoon, August 28, to charges that he “cherry-picked” profitable accounts for his Manhattan-based investment firm over a four-year period, and altered documents in an attempt to impede a subsequent investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mr. Motz, who is the president and chief executive officer of Melhado, Flynn & Associates, entered his plea in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen A. Tomlinson in U.S. District Court in Central Islip, a day after he was indicted on the two criminal counts. Mr. Motz surrendered last Thursday morning to federal authorities, according to Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office.

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Convicted murderer appeals child starvation conviction

Published September 14, 2008 05:21 am -
A man serving a life term in the 2003 starvation death of his daughter is appealing his conviction, alleging that some child welfare caseworkers’ documents were altered and others were destroyed.

Convicted murderer appeals child starvation conviction

KITTANNING (AP) — A man serving a life term in the 2003 starvation death of his daughter is appealing his conviction, alleging that some child welfare caseworkers’ documents were altered and others were destroyed.
James Tatar, 46, was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 4-year-old Kristen Tatar, whose 11½-pound body was found stuffed into a picnic cooler put out for garbage collectors near her Armstrong County home in August 2003.
Tatar’s attorney, Jeffrey Miller, contends that a forensic document examiner determined that four documents from the Westmoreland County Children’s Bureau, which had been working with Tatar’s parents, had been altered.

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