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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Unir«nal Picas
One of the pleasures of life, as we recall from the Katzenjammer kids, is to throw a snowball at the fellow in the high silk hat. It is the bestwritten, best-edited paper in the country. So let us pause in the day’s approbation to take note of the literary offenses of The New York Time8.
It should go without saying, but I will say it anyhow, that those \#io write for the Times should know how to spell words in the English language. This is not always the case at The New York Times.
Last year at about this time the paper reported the sad story of 10year-old Katie Beers, who had been reared “amid sickness, squaller and alleged sexual abuse.” How did “squaller” get by the best-paid copy editors in the world? ,
The Times’ man in Ottawa has been known to report that the leader of the Liberal Party “kept his own council,” which is not what he meant at all. The Times’ in Salt Lake City covered the story of eight hikers in Zion National Park. They went by a hazardous route, “repelling down 1,500 foot cliffs.” They were in fact: rappelling down those cliffs.
A second rule is that writers of the first rank must avoid secondclass metaphors, but in December we learned from the Times that Pro
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