Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Rumania's ex-King Carol II, living in exile near Lisbon, cleared up a mystery that has baffled philatelists for 13 years: Where was that rarest European postage stamp, a Swedish 1855 error-variety worth something like $30,000? Carol revealed himself as the owner when he gave his stamp 'to a Manhattan auctioneer with instructions to sell...
...hates to wake up in the morning. The operators turn it on, the tubes light up and reach a proper temperature, but the machine is not really awake. A problem sent through its sleepy wits does not get far. Red lights flash, indicating that the machine has made an error. The patient operators try the problem again. This time the machine thinks a little more clearly. At last, after several tries, it is fully awake and willing to think straight...
Fantastic Error. In his house on Walnut Street, Dr. Benjamin Rush plowed prayerfully through his medical library hoping to find a way to beat the yellow fever. He was a good and pious, if somewhat crotchety and hypersensitive man, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and generally considered the most eminent physician in the U.S. The "cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting...
...Pudding official called this faux pas "a preposterous error" and predicted that from now on the Club's "social name will...