Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August J. Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page three of today's paper, IN THE SAME ISSUE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Roy M. Goodman...
When he is not battling theological error at the University of Utah, Editor Petersen wages war against his powerful competition-the morning Tribune (circ. 88,930) and the evening Telegram (circ. 35,799). Both are owned by the family of the late mining king and U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah. In two years, the Mormon Church has invested about $2,000,000 in expanding and improving the News, including a type-face-lifting...
Pegler's genealogical low-down ran for two editions in the Atlanta Constitution, which was soon besieged by calls from angry Atlantans pointing out how low-down it really was. (King Features had also spotted the error, sent a belated "kill" order.) Two days later, the Constitution sternly corrected Pegler. In his "zeal to defame the Roosevelts," said the newspaper, Pegler had confused the "distinguished Bulloch family of Georgia"-with Rufus Brown Bullock, no Southerner but a damyankee from New York who was the "detested" governor of Georgia in Reconstruction days (1868-71). Mrs. Roosevelt was a Bulloch...
Caught up, Pegler retracted his error with a sleight-of-hand pass designed to be quicker than readers' eyes. ("Only recently [I] caught myself in the mistaken belief that Rufus Bullock . . . was the great-grandfather of the Empress Eleanor.") In doing so, he pulled another mudball out of his hat. Demanded Pegler, with the air of a man getting to the heart of the matter: "But who, then, was Rufus the rogue? What...
...fluctuations in their popularity reported by the semimonthly charts of C. E. Hooper, Inc. Other researchers, and in particular Chicago's A. C. Nielsen Co., indignantly charged that the Hooper system, based on phone calls and limited to 36 large cities, was both incomplete and subject to error "as high as 40%." Gadget-minded Arthur Nielsen in his surveys used Audimeters, which are attached to radios in selected homes and record on film the time, station and frequency...