Yale Daily News

Updated: Friday, November 21, 2008 at 5:23am

Typist sells tradition

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Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Manson Whitlock won’t buy green bananas, he jokes. “I’ll be dead before they turn yellow!” Not too far from the Koffee Too? café, Whitlock sits in a small, wan room surrounded by partially dismantled typewriters, books, papers and boxes filled with parts. In the 77th year of owning his typewriter repair shop located on 282 York St., Whitlock pores over his table, his fingers fiddling with a blue 1927 Royal typewriter.
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