Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON is happy to announce that James B. Conant is President of Harvard, not Yale. It took the quick thinking of George Stewart, professor of English at U.C.L.A., to spot the incriminating error in the Hollywood script of "Night Into Morning...
None of this was necessarily wrong, Williams conceded, but a Government tax-collection error of such suspicious proportions, plus the notorious names involved, plus the Treasury's apparent indifference, was certainly "most interesting...
...special investigator and onetime government attorney, turned in his report. Smith's conclusion: "There was no fraud, collusion or illegality involved . . . The RFC would probably have received more favorable treatment [in the repayment of the loan] if it had so insisted. If the RFC was in error in failing to demand more favorable treatment, however, its error was, at most, an error of judgment . . ." Snapped Senator Tobey: "I spoke the truth...
...should like to take the opportunity provided by your letter column to express the Advocate's sincere regret to its readers for any similarity between material which appeared in its December issue and writings previously published elsewhere. We do not condone our error, although it is an obvious fact that we cannot be expected to have read and become acquainted with all plagiarizable literature...
Last week Eriko, a secretary, was being bawled out by her boss for an unforgivable error: she had mistaken one of the boss's concubines for his wife, and escorted the concubine unannounced straight into the boss's office. Would Eriko be fired? Would her boy friend walk out on her? All of a sudden, Japanese listeners seemed to have lost interest. Moreover, some were downright disgusted. Complained one housewife: "I had been led to believe that Eriko would be happily married by this time. I don't like the program any more...