Word: incorrection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the East Bengal government took prompt steps to deny the charges: "Incorrect reports ... no such complaint . . ." In their anger, the Pakistani officials had failed to notice that the Statesman's fish story appeared in the column, "Seventy-Five Years Ago Today...
...state that the Rickenbacker automobile was the only one equipped with four-wheel brakes (during its period of production). This is incorrect. The 1921 straight-eight Duesenberg was equipped with "simultaneously acting four-wheel brakes, controlled by a single pedal." Note also that these were hydraulic, not mechanical, brakes...
Joan Dexter is far too pretty and slim to play the role of decaying middle-aged Buttercup. To make up for this faulty casting she gives the part an interpretation that is spirited and novel, if incorrect. Robert Peters as Captain Corcoran, Roger Murphy as Dick Deadeye, and David Shapiro as Sir Joseph Porter, and all far better than average amateur performers. Nancy Ryan's Cousin Hebe is one of the finest that I have ever seen...
...date of Commencement is Thursday, June 22, contrary to a previous and incorrect announcement in the CRIMSON...
...April letter, Manhattan's National City Bank cheerily observed: "Any inference that overall consumer buying is lagging, or purchasing power diminishing, would be incorrect." In fact, the bank thought the outlook for the coming months was "very satisfactory...