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Who Was Nat Sherman?
by Herbert Blenner | Posted November 10, 2000
On November 3, 1959, The New York Times published an advertisement containing alien characters next to the report on the defection of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Nat Sherman company sold premium tobacco products and supplies since 1930. This family-owned business in New York City has been passed down through two or three generations. Currently, Nat Sherman Inc. is located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
During the fifties, Nat Sherman combined business and pleasure. He typically spent the winter months in Cuba where he purchased his tobacco. For the dog days of summer, Nathan N. Sherman had a place in Cold Spring, New York. Possibly, Nat Sherman had a town residence in Jackson Heights, about twenty minutes from Manhattan.
Nat Sherman wrote his own advertisements and did his own photography. This would explain the many advertisements he published with anomalies. Most errors such as unbalanced quotation marks, unbalanced parentheses, a misspelled word or transposition of two lines of text could have been accidental. The key point being no one could show these errors were intentional.
by Herbert Blenner | Posted November 10, 2000
On November 3, 1959, The New York Times published an advertisement containing alien characters next to the report on the defection of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Nat Sherman company sold premium tobacco products and supplies since 1930. This family-owned business in New York City has been passed down through two or three generations. Currently, Nat Sherman Inc. is located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
During the fifties, Nat Sherman combined business and pleasure. He typically spent the winter months in Cuba where he purchased his tobacco. For the dog days of summer, Nathan N. Sherman had a place in Cold Spring, New York. Possibly, Nat Sherman had a town residence in Jackson Heights, about twenty minutes from Manhattan.
Nat Sherman wrote his own advertisements and did his own photography. This would explain the many advertisements he published with anomalies. Most errors such as unbalanced quotation marks, unbalanced parentheses, a misspelled word or transposition of two lines of text could have been accidental. The key point being no one could show these errors were intentional.
Fortunately, Nat Sherman published an advertisement that contained clearly legible characters that are not part of our language. The production of a line of text containing a large superscript comma and a superscript period with an electric typewriter requires the five-step sequence of half-down, comma, change font wheel, period, and half-up. This complicated sequence of steps rules out accidental production. This advertisement was published by The New York Times on November 3, 1959