Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 18 issue of TIME you spelled the name of a Japanese envoy two different ways: Tarauchi and Terauchi. Which is right? This occurs on pages 30 & 31. I have read TIME for 5 years and this is the first time I have caught you up on any typographical error...
...caught Editor Landry vacationing in England. When he finally got passage home, he was forbidden to cable his family or his paper what ship he would arrive on. So he cabled Johnny Johnstone: ERROR YOUR LAST CROSSING CORRECT. Johnstone got the idea instantly, passed the word along that Landry was on the Aquitania...
...Consolidated Mining Co. with the aid of British capital and U. S. engineers, was mining gold. His British bankers, however, believing their own engineers' reports that the enterprise was worthless, unloaded their Oriental holdings on the English public. Six years later they found they had made a tactical error. Since 1903 Oriental has grossed an average $3,000,000 worth of gold a year, paid $14,379,395 in dividends...
...plucked the youthful Eddie Cantor out of a knife-throwing act, The Star Maker has as its frame the similar career of Larry Earl (Bing Crosby). Like Impresario Edwards, Larry goes on mopping up with his moppets until a children's protective society forcibly shows him the error of his ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show in the way of juvenile talent from miniature tap dancers to a 14-year-old coloratura soprano (Linda Ware), who is good enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch). And in the meantime...
...Boys-from-Syracuse fixes have complicated the steady lives of the boys from Rochester, but they face routine confusions. Recent example: a friend mistook Bill for Rob on Main Street, apologized for his error when Bill identified himself. Few days later he stopped Bill again and told him of his mistake, again sure he was Rob. Bill did not bother to explain. After 70 years it is an old story...