Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Error First in "Globe...
...error first appeared in the Boston Globe last Wednesday," White explained. "I called them immediately about it, and told them I preferred not to have any more publicity. The Life came out with the same picture. They called me almost immediately from New York, several times, in fact. They said they'd do anything they could to make it up to me, but I told them nothing they could do would make much difference. It was too late...
...Pursuit of Fire Water Sir: Your Nov. 2 report that the Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. recommended . . . that the ban on the sale of liquor to Indians be lifted is in error. Synod did not make this recommendation. Rather, in the interest of civil rights, Synod voted to request Governor Howard Pyle to put the matter and final decision in the hands of Indian tribal councils ... It isn't that Presbyterians are in favor of liquor. The point is that they are against discrimination, and they feel that white man's laws banning...
...White, in April 1947, resigned his office, referring to reasons of health. Although my recent off-hand comment concerning his resignation was in error, the fact is that he was separated from the Government service promptly when the necessity for secrecy . . . came...
...imagine DuPre expecting to get away with it." There was no denying the Herald's expose. Author Reynolds announced candidly that he had been "duped" by the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated." Reader's Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace was equally stunned, explained that the Digest would confess its error in its January issue. "This mistake," said Random House's President Bennett Cerf, "is a beaut...