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Words of the year Now with cozzie livs.

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A. Leddy The mystery of the name on the nameplate, solved.

Pence, comma

ABC News reports on what Mike Pence told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators:

Sources said that investigators’ questioning became so granular at times that they pressed Pence over the placement of a comma in his book: When recounting a phone call with Trump on Christmas Day 2020, Pence wrote in his book that he told Trump, “You know, I don’t think I have the authority to change the outcome” of the election on Jan. 6.

But Pence allegedly told Smith’s investigators that the comma should have never been placed there. According to sources, Pence told Smith’s investigators that he actually meant to write in his book that he admonished Trump, “You know I don’t think I have the authority to change the outcome,” suggesting Trump was well aware of the limitations of Pence’s authority days before Jan. 6 — a line Smith includes in his indictment.

“You know I don’t think I have the authority to change the outcome”: and the absence of a comma has the authority to change everything.

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The doctor is in

[From Mad Love (dir. Karl Freund, 1935). Click for a larger view.]

Peter Lorre makes his American debut as Dr. Gogol.

A pocket notebook sighting

[From Mad Love (dir. Karl Freund, 1935). Click for a larger view.]

Peter Lorre as the skilled but mad surgeon Dr. Gogol. It’s not the notebook he’s after.

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[Deflating balloon sounds]

In Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy , a speech balloon breathes its last.

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Typography of the young

In today’s Family Circus : “Italics make it look like the wind’s blowing.”

Misreading

On NBC Nightly News tonight, these words appeared next to an image of shallow boxes in stacks:

RECORD
BUYING
BINGE

And my first thought — honest — was of LPs.

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Words of the year Now with one from Merriam-Webster.

A. Leddy

[Man Afraid (dir. Harry Keller, 1957). Click for a much larger view.]

Do you see it? Elaine spotted it first: the nameplate on the desk in the background:


Leddy (Irish, old) is not a common name. Was there an A. Leddy in the industry? There was, at least sort of: Ann Leddy, who appeared in a single episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Was a prop person sneaking her name into this scene? Only Paul Drake knows for sure.

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November 28: A reader figured it out and shared in the comments. Ann Leddy was married to the actor John Archer. One of this movie’s set designers: Russell A. Gausman. Archer and Gausman worked on several movies together.

The other set designer for this movie: Julia Heron. And the name on the other nameplate: J. Heron. Someone was having fun.