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CRITICISM OF SHAW BASED ON INACCURACY.(EDITORIAL)

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From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 19961006
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I usually enjoy the tongue-in-cheek humor and satirical tone of your Odds & Ends column on Saturdays, but one of your recent arrows fell a tad short. You tweaked CNN anchor Bernard Shaw for his identification of Tom Clancy as the source of the phrase "clear and present danger" because you believed the source of that phrase was Oliver Wendell Holmes.

I respectfully dissent. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the well-known 19th-century writer known as "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" and father of the better-known Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who served for many years as a justice ...

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