Radar O'Rielly was actually kind of "stunning and brave" in his day, first time I'd ever seen a guy at a typewriter.
Hah, even as far as the 1990's I had job interviewers question my WPM. One refused to believe it until I took their test. (Same pattern every time it happened: Two interviewers, the male IT guy didn't question it, the female HR officer acted like I was lying.) The meme of "men can't type" goes back as long as typewriters do, I suspect. Archie Goodwin mentions it a couple times as I recall, and the Nero Wolfe stories were written from 1930ish-1970ish.
Hah, even as far as the 1990's I had job interviewers question my WPM. One refused to believe it until I took their test. (Same pattern every time it happened: Two interviewers, the male IT guy didn't question it, the female HR officer acted like I was lying.) The meme of "men can't type" goes back as long as typewriters do, I suspect. Archie Goodwin mentions it a couple times as I recall, and the Nero Wolfe stories were written from 1930ish-1970ish.