European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 columns the stars and stripes monday september 7.1967 today s crossword the Rule on none is there is none by James j. Kilpatrick writers and editor fight about the damnedest things. For example  from Miami none of the team s final seven opponents Are Likely to be ranted in the top 20 this  from Parade supplement in response to a Reader asking if any of the children on the Cosby to show Are White none Are  from a column by George Wui none of the Warren court i most important rulings has been overturned this is the Rule about none there is no Rule about  the pronoun lakes either the singular or the plural depending upon the thought to be conveyed. 1stick with the singular in the sense of not a single  another is when to use a double possessive. Not Long ago 1 wrote a political column in which 1 said friends of Jack Kemp believe he will pick up in the  a copy editor thinking to polish my pearls of prose made a change. Now the sentence read friends of Jack Kemp s believe ,." a week or 10 later when 1 saw this emendation i waxed Roth to umbrage i inquired about the double possessive what is that Apos Frostie a doing there Well we broke a couple of lances. My editor cited thesty rebook of the associated press this is the Canby double possessive two conditions must apply for a double possessive a phrase such As a Friend of Johns to occur 1. The word Afler of must refer loan animate object and 2. The word before of must involve Only a portion of the animate object s possessions. Otherwise do not use the possessive form on the word after of the friends or John Adams mourned his death All the friends were involved he is a fiend of the College not College because colleges inanimate " All Clear no then listen to what William and Mary Morris have to say in their dictionary of con temporary usage the use of a double possessive As in i might still have been none the wider had not Afkend of my wife s written in Laic january May be frowned on by Tome purists but it is perfectly accept Able in informal  the Morrisey quote an authority who says that using both the apostrophe Sand of is an English idiom of Long and respectable meaning. The construction known As a double Geni Tive usually has an informal  fiddlesticks to my Eye and ear the apostrophes is Surplusage and confusing Surplusage at that the a s complicated Rule about animate and inanimate objects and Only a portion of the Ani mate object s possessions strikes me As so much mud. Who thought up that Rule to my Eye when a noun is followed by an apostrophes something has to belong to thai noun. So i inquire again friends of Jade Kemp s what friends of his dog a fiend of my wife s what my wife s sister my wife abridge partner 40 Rel lives 41 Karl in Tor Luis or ret43 fast off 48 Slit Figush 47 French donkey48 leave to heaven 49 great gradual. Ton Gin 54fince railed Down 1 work unit i Only have eyes you 3 Nick or Green 4 confused 5 remainder word with Fame or humor 7 Ware House thin Flake 9 Czar so 20 Blue or while 21 rip violently 22 note chemist = i Myrtil pros everyone getting in polling act Byar Buchwald every news outfit is taking polls concerning current events. In a matter of hours you can now find out where America stands on any subject i be decided to go into he same business. Here Are the results of my latest nationwide poll do you agree that Ollie North should have permitted someone else to install a Security system around his House agree 14 percent. Disagree 14 percent. Should have bought a pit bulldog instead 72percent. When Bud Mcfarlane and North went to Iran they took with them a Bible and a chocolate cake. In Exchange the iranians mined the Strait of Hormuz. Who got the Best Deal the United states 48 percent. The Aya Rojiah s Bible class 42 percent. The Cia Baker who made the cake to launch the first iranian american Friendship Cookbook 10 percent Don president Reagan know any More now than he did before he had lunch with adm. Pom Dexter knows More 10 percent. Knows less 1s percent can t remember who adm. Poindexter is 75 percent. If anyone from the while House is indicted for crimes concerning Iran Gale he should be Given an immediate Pardon 33 percent. An immediate Pardon and a lecture tour-15 percent. An immediate Pardon a lecture tour a million Dollar Book contract a Bible and a chocolate layer cake22 percent. Who should be in charge of kuwaiti american tankers in the persian Gulf sly Stallone 76 percent. James Bond 14 percent. Arnold Schwarzenegger 10 percent who would you most like to see stand by in president in a crisis Fawn Hall is percent. Donna Rice 20 percent. Joan Collins 65 percent. What would you do with the Iran Centra Money that has been slashed away in Swiss Bank accounts give it to attorney Genera de Meese to get wed tech Back on its feet 25 percent give it to Mike Deaver so he can gel the Justice department of this Back 25 percent. Keep it 50 percent. 55 Choice part 861 Lair a link enl 57 jinx58 discourage in a way59 hostelry 10 Home or he Lippre Chaun 11 meter Follower?16  land Thor. Solution time 22 Mann. Is Gordiy i new 9.7 9-7 the far Side Iky i ear a pc Liki Barf Row the Vutuc in fio