Word: typo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Typo Trick. This fourth U.S.-published novel by Heinrich Boll (Adam, Where Art Thou? The Train Was on Time), best of Germany's postwar novelists, needs all his skill to emerge convincingly from a clumsy translation. A typographical trick of frequently capitalizing phrases and sentences, sometimes to convey the thoughts of children, sometimes for no discernible reason...
...Typo. In Melbourne, Australia, after Skywriter Fred Hoinville garbled a telephone number in an advertisement and calls flooded in to the wrong number, he had to take his plane up next day, rewrite the message...
SEPTEMBER-Typo. In Philadelphia, when Inquirer Columnist Frank Brookhouser reported that Hubert B. Wolfeschlegelsteinhasenbergerdorff had registered to vote in the November elections, Hubert wrote in to say that his name was Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff...
...Typo. In Philadelphia, when Inquirer Columnist Frank Brookhouser reported that Hubert B. Wolfeschlegelsteinhasenbergerdorff had registered to vote in the November elections, Hubert wrote in indignantly to say that a "u" had been left out: his name was Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff...