Barbara D. Cassin

Mom, Wife, Do-er, lover of Baseball and Math, Independent Thinker from Texas now in NJ

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

I bought tix round trip from Newark;
Paid a fee 4 the speed-thought it was a perk!
But EWR runway is in disarray;
So the 'schedule' oft goes astray;
And @ewrairport & @united don't adjust - it's BIZZERK!

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@DrNeilStone 😂💉💉💉💉

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@SleeperYankees Non-controversial

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@ESPNNewYork @880ESPNNewYork @DHRonESPN @DonLagreca Cool graphic!!

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@Orioles Congratulations to the woman who has been your Head Groundskeeper. This field is BEAUTIFUL! Best of luck wherever you are taking your talents!! #Orioles #CamdenYards

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@TalkinYanks I know you will be a great baseball manager... you are a leader, a steward of the game, a sharing soul, AND anyone who looks upon a turtle with such kind eyes is a good dude!

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@YESNetwork I am not sure about this new bi-lingual broadcast. But. DO love hearing @ Ricky Ricardo (¿MrRicardoSuave )

[WFAN Sports Radio @WFAN660]

We are devastated to hear about the passing of John Sterling, a WFAN and Yankees radio icon whose voice was synonymous with an entire generation of Yankee fandom.

Rest in peace, John ❤️

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

Whenever #11 is ready, I hope the @Yankees will throw a party for Mr. Gardner and his family.

[YES Network @YESNetwork]

25 Years of YES Presents: It's a Gardy Party! 🎉

Relive Brett Gardner's 3-run homer at Wrigley Field.

#YANKSonYES

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@dcone36 @RealMichaelKay @YESNetwork @M_Marakovits How about:
the A. B. See-yas!!
Pronounced Aay,bee,cee -yas!!
#ABSeeYas

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@dcone36 I believe a very good descriptor is "SUPPLE".
Tim Hill is supple (which is a really fun word to say!)

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

"She got fired for making a typo. That typo made her $47 million."

In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham stood in her Dallas kitchen earning $300 a month as a single mother, raising her young son Michael alone, and facing a problem the entire business world refused to solve: IBM’s new electric typewriters made mistakes impossible to erase. One typo meant retyping an entire page. For secretaries across America—mostly women with no margin for error—this wasn’t just inconvenient; it was career‑threatening. Bette grabbed a blender, some white tempera paint, and decided she would fix it herself. She mixed the paint to match office stationery, thinned it until it flowed smoothly, and painted over her typing errors. The next morning she typed the correct letters directly on top. The mistake vanished. That kitchen experiment became Liquid Paper—a product that would quietly revolutionize offices worldwide and make her a multimillionaire. But the path there was anything but smooth.

Bette Clair McMurray was born March 23, 1924, in Dallas, Texas. At seventeen she dropped out of high school. In 1942 she married Warren Nesmith, a soldier shipping out to World War II. While he fought overseas, she gave birth to Michael and supported them both as a secretary, attending night classes to earn her GED. The marriage ended in divorce in 1946. Suddenly Bette was solely responsible for a toddler. Money was desperately tight. Michael later remembered his mother crying over bills. She dreamed of being an artist, but art didn’t pay rent. So she focused on secretarial work, teaching herself shorthand and typing, applying for jobs she wasn’t qualified for, and learning as she went. By 1951 her relentless determination had earned her the position of executive secretary to W.W. Overton, chairman of Texas Bank and Trust—the highest position available to women at the bank. Then IBM introduced electric typewriters with carbon‑film ribbons. The machines typed faster, but errors were permanent. For Bette—who admitted she was never a great typist—the new technology felt like a death sentence.

One afternoon she watched artists painting the bank’s holiday window display. When they made mistakes, they simply painted over them. Why couldn’t typists do the same? She went home and experimented: mixing white tempera paint in her kitchen blender, tinting it to match cream stationery, thinning it until it dried quickly without cracking. She brought a small bottle and a fine brush to work. When she made a typo, she painted over it, waited for it to dry, and typed the correction on top. Her boss never noticed. But other secretaries did. They saw Bette’s documents were flawless while theirs were covered in erasure marks and smudges. They begged for her “magic paint.” In 1956 she began bottling it as “Mistake Out,” selling about one hundred bottles a month to desperate colleagues. Demand exploded. She and Michael’s teenage friends filled nail‑polish bottles by hand in her garage every night, labeling them one by one.

In 1958, The Secretary magazine called her product “the answer to a secretary’s prayers.” Five hundred orders poured in from across the country. Bette still worked full‑time at the bank while running Liquid Paper at night: filling orders, answering mail, refining formulas, shipping samples. The exhaustion caught up with her. One afternoon, signing a routine bank letter, she absentmindedly wrote “The Mistake Out Company” instead of “Texas Bank and Trust.” She was fired immediately. Losing her steady paycheck could have destroyed her. Instead, it freed her. She threw everything into the business. By 1964 Liquid Paper turned profitable; by 1975 it sold twenty‑five million bottles a year. Bette built it with values: on‑site childcare, employee library, retirement plans, a credit union. “The true value in business,” she said, “is never in the dollar, but in the benefit it brings to humankind.”

© Women Stories

#drthehistories

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@JomboyMedia Time for #54 aka CB to retire. He has a charity foundation that he can FOCUS on!

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@BryanHoch "Suzyn, the Coaches and I don't have any consensus about what we are going to watch instead of The Bachelorette, yet. It's too soon; but I will let you know when we decide."

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@MLB Baltimore Orioles

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@DHRonESPN @HeymanHustle If anyone doubts that 12. is genuine, watch this:

https://t.co/FKjxyO3wNE

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@Rosenbergradio Thanks to @BenStiller (or whoever selects 🎶for Severance) I recommend "I Don't Worry About a Thing" (or anything) by Mose Allison

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@YankeesPod 26

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@DHRonESPN Both of these Griffin drops deserve to be in the Sweet 16 of #DropMadness26

[Barbara D. Cassin @ExActuary0]

@DHRonESPN @Rosenbergradio @AnthonyPucik @DonLagreca It's a great drop ... but for the record, I think @AnthonyPucik is awesome!👏🏻