Word: misprinted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preliminary, Harvard's freshman team eeked out a 111-30 victory over Brandeis. (No, that's not a misprint). The Crimson has six players over 6-5 and scads of former All-State high school stars. Coach George Harrington was able to put in his second and third teams without harming the Crimson attack...
...Ronny won an all-expense trip to Colorado, but he chose the alternative prize of $150 in cash. He wanted to add the money to the personal savings account that he hoped would, one day, pay for college. The papers refused to pay. That $150 figure was a misprint, they said, and they offered Ronny Haan $18.75 instead. Ronny went on the trip...
...shelled out $175,000 for the screen rights to The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history (800,000 copies) of Operation Overlord. In the course of the next year he bought up five scriptwriters, five directors, 37 military advisers and 42-no, it's not a misprint-42 stars.* Then, to the horror of economy-minded Congressmen, Zanuck somehow managed, in effect, to rent several thousand U.S. servicemen and 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing. On top of that, he hit the British for 1,000 paratroopers and the French...
...home runs, I never did, and I never will. I don't hold it against anybody." Runnells even forgives baseball's record keepers for spelling his name wrong; a Marine sergeant dropped the last l in an intra-service box score in 1947, and the misprint has never been corrected. In the Baseball Register, the program, the newspapers-and even on the silver bat he got when he won his first batting crown in 1960-his last name is spelled with only one l. Drawls Runnells, who now signs autographs with one l himself...
Because of a misprint advising Radcliffe undergraduates sectioning was to be later in the day, very few girls were among the first...