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...typographical error (there cannot have been more than three or four of them this year) appeared recently in an official release distributed by the University's New Office. A typist with an apparently ungovernable flair for alliteration substituted an "F" for the first "L" when writing the name of Louis F. Fieser, associate professor of Chemistry...
After the first conference, Harvard representatives, thinking that they might have been in error for years through some slip long since forgotten, asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association Rules Committee for the correct interpretation of the rules and were informed that by unanimous vote of the Committee the Ellis-Loomis bout was a draw and that the Olney-Huffman bout should have been given to Olney, making the final score of the meet 5 1/2-2 1/2 for Harvard...
...Colombia and empties into Venezuela's saltish Lake Maracaibo (see map p. 68). Early explorers thought the Catatumbo Lights might be similar to the "Perpetual Fires" at Baku, where burning natural gas seepage illuminated the discovery of that fabulous Russian oil field. Their guess was a scientific error. But the Catatumbo Lights did illuminate the discovery of another major source of the world...
...Forty-Gallon Baptis" gets a token he is going to die at 10 o'clock that night. He makes the event an occasion to prove to his benighted Free-Will neighbors the error of-their ways...
...Chicago party, Pianist Templeton was asked if he would accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein in Lalo's Symphonic espagnole. The blind pianist replied he did not know the work but would play it if someone ran through it first. Pianist Templeton then negotiated the longish composition with but one error. Awed, Violinist Milstein declared that the error was an improvement on the original...