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    Manson Whitlock, 96; Repaired Typewrite ‘ByMARGALIT FOX For eight decades, ‘Manson ‘Whitlock kept the 20th century's ‘ambient music going: the fft of the roller, the ding of the bel, the paper, in 2010. “I've heard about them @ lot, but I don’t own one, ‘and I don't want one to own me.” ‘Whitlock’s. Typewriter Shop ‘once supported six technicians, ‘who ministered to patients with familiar names like Royal, Un- ‘derwood, Smith and Corona, and curious ones like Hammonia and Blickensderfer. ‘The shop, near the Yale cam- attracted a tide of students ‘and faculty members; the Pultz- cr Prize-winning writers Robert Penn Warren, Archibald Mac- Leish and John Hersey; the Yale ‘lassiist Erich Segal, who wrote the bestselling novel “Love Story” on a Royal he bought there; and, on at least one ocea- sion, President Gerald R. Ford. In recent years, however, until the closed the shop in June, Mr. Whitlock was its entire staf, ONLINE: NOTABLE DEATHS. Aside show highlighting theives of some of those who died in 208. nytimes.com/ obituaries Manson Whitlock, at his shop in New Haven in 1990, was often described as America’s oldest typewriter repairman. Tending manual machines lovingly, but computers never. working with only a bust of Mark. ‘Twain for company. He reported each day in a suit and tie, as he hhad from the beginning. On Sun days he sometimes cheated and dlispensed with the te Mr. Whitlock was older than most of his charges, though by no ‘means all of them. (Among the shop's resident machines was a 1910 Oliver, with its type bars ar- rayed vertically, lke harp strings) He owed his longevity, he told The New Haven Register last year, to “cheap Scotch and strong tobacco” ‘Manson Hale Whitlock was born on Feb. 21 1917, and reared fon his family’s dairy farm in Bethany, Conn. In 1899, his father, Clifford Edward Everett Hale ‘Whitlock, opened a bookstore in New Haven. ‘The store had a typewriter de- partment, and Manson, the kind ‘of bay who took clocks apart to ‘see what made them tick, began ‘working there as a teenager. By the 1940s, he had his own shop nearby. , ‘There, except for Army service in World War Il, Mr. Whitlock re~ ‘mained, a bulwark against the emoticon age. Lately, he tended to only a ‘small number of customers, in-

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