Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to correct an error in fact in your article about Norman Corwin [TIME, Aug. 27]. It states that in his recently concluded summer sustaining series "Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all bigtime evening shows." Actually the series built steadily to a 6.2 Hooper rating as of the period Aug. 1-7 (the last report currently available). Instead of a drop, this represents an audience increase of 106% in six weeks. The average Hooper rating for all evening programs on all networks in this latest period was 5.7; Corwin's was therefore 9% higher...
...Weidenreich traces the head-shape fallacy, on which the Nazis based their theory of the superiority of the longheaded Nordic type, to "a tragic anthropological error committed in good faith" 100 years ago by a Swedish anatomist named Anders Retzius. Retzius hit on the idea of identifying peoples or races by a head-measurement index based on the ratio between length (from the forehead to the back of the head) and breadth. Ever since, anthropologists have classified all men as "dolichocephalics" (long-headed), "brachycephalics" (broad-headed) and "mesocephalics" (in between...
Brown Scores on Error...
...Gore, and Standish Halls will continue to operate as Freshman dormitories and not as Houses, Dean Leighton stated. With Freshman migrations being discouraged, Smith Hall will remain completely filled, as will every entry in Standish except one. Regardless of, any caprices of the Admissions Committee, a comfortable margin for error in entrance estimates exists in Gore, where 60 per cent of the rooms are vacant this summer...
...Thumb Error. Near Placerville. Calif.. escaped Convict Eric Launblad took to the highway, finally thumbed a ride, was promptly nabbed by the driver: the prison warden...