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Your recent article (TIME, May 26), partly about me, was very friendly, but it had one error which, with your permission, I would like to correct...
Slays for Slaps. A party in the Manhattan boarding house of a Mrs. Mabel McGowan ended in a shooting scrape. Headlined the New York Telegram: LANDLADY SLAYS HOST. Mrs. McGowan sued for $50,000, was denied it last week when the Telegram proved a typographical error had changed "slaps" to "slays...
1/30,000th. Instead of simply "a New York drug company," a story in the New York American indicated that "the York drug company" was involved in bootlegging. The York Drug Co. sued for $100,000, withdrew amicably last week when Hearst attorneys convinced them the error was unavoidable. A linotype machine had failed to cast the essential explanatory words because of a 1/30,000th-inch maladjustment...
Every man on the Harvard team was responsible for at least one error with the exception of Mays, Huxtable, and the three pitchers. Nugent was injured in the first inning and that may have accounted for his sloppy fielding later in the game. In that frame Mays went to first on a walk and Nugent followed with a scratch hit. MacGrath then sent the ball between first and second and while Marshall was fielding it Nugent collided with him. Time was taken out for the Harvard captain but he continued the game...
...radio signals from Washington which registers on a moving tape along with the clock ticks in such a way that the timing can be done to about 1-50 of a second. The clock is still in an experimental state, but maintains a constant rate with an error of about 1-10 of a second per day. Modifications are constantly being introduced in the hope of finding further improvements. He has also a clock making use as its timing element of the longitudinal vibrations of a bar of steel driven by magnetostrietion. This second type of clock produces alternating currents...