Word: mistakenness
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...mostly through my own fault, found their way into your review of my book, The Renaissance [Sept. 28]? When in 1927 I wrote Transition, I thought of it as a novel, called it so, and named the central character John Lemaire. While I was in Greece the book was mistaken as an autobiography, and I returned too late to correct the error. Later I consented to have it called "a mental autobiography," which it is; but there were some incidents in the story that never happened to me physically, like the explosion of the Anarchist bomb...The Anarchists looked down...
...five-hour session before a Soviet tribunal (others told of trials lasting only three or four minutes), then were sentenced to hard labor. His guard asked him how many years he had got. "I told him 25," said Keuntje. "He looked at his list and said I must be mistaken; his list said only five. Later he rechecked and told me with a smile: 'You were right...
...items (chosen from a record 6,000 entries) ranged from preserve jars to crystal goblets, from plastic leaf rakes to automatic dishwashers. Most of them had bold, simple shapes; there were corkscrews and clothes hangers that might be mistaken for modern abstract sculpture. Cheap-looking plastic was disguised or dressed up, e.g., by pressing interesting-looking cloth weaves in plastic sheets. Furniture seemed more solid than in previous years, with more contrasting materials, e.g., brass and marble, and more expensive woods. Example: an oblong conference table in which eight pieces of walnut were matched perfectly to produce a flamelike pattern...
...enough to hang him for, if he were really guilty. ¶ British officials in Germany paid 22,500 Deutsche Mark ($5,357) damages to Hans Klose, an ex-Wehrmacht private who was captured by the British and turned over to the Russians for five years' imprisonment on the mistaken impression that he was a former Abwehr officer (TIME, June 1). A British court which tried Klose's suit for mistaken arrest placed the blame for the error squarely on the Russians, but urged that Hans should be compensated for his sufferings. Said Hans: "I am grateful . . . That they...
Wrong Number. In El Paso, Francisco Lopez, 21, fined $100 for turning in a false alarm, pleaded that he had mistaken the fire alarm box for a public telephone...