I turned around and placed it with the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, PA, where the 1958 Steve McQueen sci-fi movie "The Blob" was filmed, as a similar grey 1949 Royal KMG appears in the police-station scenes.
via Mark Schrad at https://typewriterdatabase.com/1949-royal-kmg.15160.typewriter
The Blob (Paramount, 1958)
I was faced in 1958 when I started graduate study at University College London with that extraordinary fact. Nobody knew how it could be that a muscle could excite itself to be rhythmic.
for - history - Denis Noble - 1958 - question - heartbeat of embryo - how? no nervous system yet.
https://timpanogos.blog/2013/07/20/typewriter-of-the-moment-supermans-1950s-television/
Sidney Redlitch: Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle. That's how they used to excorcise them.
VINTAGE 1958 COMMERCIAL - REMINGTON RAND - OFFICE-RITER TYPEWRITER
Up to 10 carbons!<br /> Cuts clear, clean stencils 149.50 plus carrying case additional<br /> $1.50 a week payable monthly
https://images.google.com/hosted/life/2bff56953d14c9d9.html
Nabokov, reflected in a mirror off camera, dictating his writing from index cards to his wife Vera who is typing on what appears to be a 1949 or 1950 Henry Dreyfuss Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter.
Notice the chrome on the front of the machine which is sitting in its bottom case shell.
Uladimir Nabokov Ithaca, New YorkDate taken:1958Photographer:Carl Mydans
Alternate angle at http://images.google.com/hosted/life/81b7b3f24bbe1b3a.html
Author Vladimir Nabokov's researched materials on file cards for his book 'Lolita'.Location:Ithaca, NY, USDate taken:September 1958Photographer:Carl Mydans
In 1958, she made her television debut opposite Groucho Marx on the game show, “You Bet Your Life.”
Bendat, Julius S. Principles and Applications of Random Noise Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1958.
My copy of this book from 1958 has a table of contents with numberings for chapter, section, and subsections.
Eg: 1.2-1 Constant Parameter Linear Systems
I didn't see/couldn't find this image in the Life archive, but it was obviously contemporanous to the others
