European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page is column the stars and stripes monday october 26,1987 today s crossword Don f use words you Don f know some months ago the painters big . News quoted a radar who wanted o abolish the apostrophe i would like to it eliminated from use in the possessive noun and perhaps from contraception As the writer perhaps was related to a reporter for the sub Urban press of Orchard Park there lie police log reflected a complaint of Rowdy youngsters conjugating on Greenfield Street Amo Aroas amal and All that Mere. How do these blunders find their Way into print docs an explanation lie in inattention in sheer Igno Rance i Don t know but some of i who write Tor a living have much explaining to do. Consider some Home examples a restaurant critic writing in a is Augustine Fla paper found the Clam shell1 Early selection to be excellent precluding a cup of soup or including maybe Olio knows in the mount Mcmon Ohio news readers found an interesting verb in an account of a National softball tournament after Shelly Squires flew out Amy soul reached on an error. The Young lady Didin flew out she died out. A movie critic in Portland ore., gave a middling review to Brighton Beach Memoir film based on Neil Simon s boyhood it often seems Simon has some grudges to Settle with his mom bul can t quite Jet the knife All the Way out of he sheaf sheaf of what Corn wheat who knows the associated press reported from Miami that Apan am jumbo Jet had been compelled to return to Miami International Airport when smoke infested the Cabin and cockpit what verb was he reporter seek ing not infested that s for sure. Columnist Judy Marcey came Home from found a Kitchen Barren of any combustibles except Dor Losand owl Pepsi an explosive combination in Barton s in August we Learned that Bethlehem steel was reopening a Mill in Indiana it s Only 60 More jobs but still it s a change from the dreary retinue of suppose we try again. Regimen routine a nodding lawyer or perhaps a wandering mind was responsible for an Eye opening line in the dram shop and alcohol reporter. It appeared that a plaintiff sought statutory damages and an that might be one Way of handling troublesome plaintiffs. In Monroe la., the news Star world reported on an emergency Appeal for restoration of funds Cul from he budget of Louisiana tech University. Tech s presi Dent said he launched his unprecedented Appeal be cause the condition has never been so destitute be of. I la buy that a correspondent for the Houston chronicle discovered interesting bodies of water in Germany. He found that in occasional Reed edged Pond meandered Over Broa expanses of land As Flat As Houston streams can mean Der and Brooks and rills and creeks and Rivers can mean Der bul Ponds can1 meander. Ponds stay put a lamentable headline appeared a couple of year Sago in the Irondequoit . Press. An offended Reader recently sent it along Noire Dame fou dress to be Mother Teresa was beatified for heaven s Sake not beautified but what about fou dress a woman who founds a school is a founder. Forget the suffix. Only a handful of Ess words remain in Permis sible usage and fou dress in t among them. The ear the Eye and the typing Fin gun get out of the Miami Herald a worker urls from a construction sight and was impelled by a Sharp Pirec of the Herald also provided a headline to think about land Mark sea Battle will be the Seattle times reported that a 7-year-old girl in Vancouver had read 326 children s books in 41 Days ferocious Reader sets Book the mount airy . News resented attacks by cartoonist on the president he was being depicted Asa War newspaper reporters and editors have plenty of company outside their ranks. A lost and found Adinie Union . Daily times sought Small Brown miniature Dat Sun strayed from 123 Woodlawn in fort Underdale Fla. The local office of the internal Revenue service asked lax practitioners to Telephone number in Dade county rather than a number in Bro Ward the Dade county number is on a rotary system and is More assessable to those calling Long a special trophy goes to a writer in the san Francis co chronicle who recalled a famous olympic race. That was when Joan be Noil snatched lie first worn in i Marathon from jangly striated grew we a who was 97 furloughs behind a Well. Nobody s perfect but some Are less perfect than others. Some months ago the better to fill an Idle hour looked up the entries under writing in Mencken s dictionary of quotations writers it appears have very different views of their loved to write. I look upon Fine phrases like a Lover he said. Keats was convinced that Fine writings next to line doing the top thing in the John Fletcher posed a rhetorical question ask How to live write write write anything Voltaire thought every kind of writing is Good bul he added save that in a letter to Frederick the great Voltaire described writing As a Devil of a profession but it has its other professionals have been less enthusiastic. expressed one curmudgeonly View no Man but a Blockhead Ever wrote except for Carlyle at one Point lamented thai the business of writing has altogether become contemptible to Wordsworth found his writing desk a place of punishment in moment of irritation Flaubert voiced a complaint known to All of us i am like a violinist whose ear i True but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sounds he hears i thought about All this the other Day in Reading the Spring summer authors Guild bulletin. Robert a Massie the Guild s incoming president sounded a Gloo my note the situation of writers in the United Stales is really not any belter financially than in was seven or eight years ago when we participated in a Survey which showed us mat the median income of writers in this country from writing is less than Solo a year the Survey Massie mentioned was conducted in1981 by the authors Guild foundation and the Center for social sciences of Columbia University. Its find Ings were based on a poll of 1,239 published authors. 1c it Mol Pru across1 cheat iiound6 taste Sonoi or dlx12 Telephone company worker 14 Charlor Burl bread 6 Zola novel ii extra sense in mariner20 quo. 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