An obituary on Wednesday about Irving Brecher, a writer for vaudeville, movies and television, included several errors.
The given name of a producer whom Mr. Brecher angered, telling him that one of his films had not been released but had escaped, was misspelled. He was Darryl Zanuck, not Daryl.
Part of a line written by Mr. Brecher and spoken by a rain-drenched Groucho Marx in the film “At the Circus” was misstated. The line is, “If I were any drier, I’d drown,” not “I’d be drowning.”
And Mervyn LeRoy, for whom Mr. Brecher wrote scripts, was not the head of production at M.G.M., though many sources attributed that position to him. (He was, however, considered the most prominent of the studio’s producers and directors.) Link
Multi-generational living: A story in Saturday’s Home section on “granny flats” said that USC gerontology professor Jon Pynoos’ father lived on his property and received end-of-life care there for five years. It was Pynoos’ father-in-law, not father, who lived in the guesthouse, and he was not given end-of-life care there. The remodeling described, including leveling the floor and installing grab bars, was rather so his father-in-law could function independently in the guesthouse. 
Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about a corruption prosecution against Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan, misstated the circumstances of his departure from office. He stepped down after serving the maximum two terms; he was not voted out in the elections held in March.
An article in some editions on Wednesday about Fordham University’s plan to give an ethics prize to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer misspelled the surname of another Supreme Court justice who received the award in 2001. She is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, not Ginsberg. The Times has misspelled her name at least two dozen times since 1980; this is the first correction the paper has published. 
Lodgings with macabre pasts: An article in Sunday’s Travel section on a B&B at Lizzie Borden’s former home misidentified one of the 1892 slaying victims as Borden’s mother, Sarah. The victim was Borden’s stepmother, Abby. The article also called Borden’s older sister her younger sister. An accompanying article about local lodgings said Sam Cooke died at the Hacienda Hotel in El Segundo. It was the Hacienda Motel on South Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles. 
The cover article on Page 52 this weekend about Senator John McCain’s campaign misspells the given name of Mr. McCain’s fellow senator from Arizona and the surname of the governor of Florida, both McCain supporters. The other Arizona senator is Jon Kyl, not John, and the Florida governor is Charlie Crist, not Christ. The article also misstates the name of the Ohio city where some McCain campaign staff members first met with Mr. McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. It is Middletown, not Middleton. And the article overstates the duties of Tucker Eskew, a member of Ms. Palin’s team. He is officially her counselor, not her chief of staff, though campaign officials say that he performs many of the same duties. 
There were several errors in the obituary of the saxophonist Pat Crumly [7 October].
Sarah Palin e-mail: An article in Tuesday’s Section A about Anne Kilkenny, a local government watchdog in Wasilla, Alaska, whose e-mailed critique of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin ended up posted widely on the Internet, reported that the e-mail was 24,000 words. It was 2,400 words. The article also reported Kilkenny’s age as 57; she is 59. Her son Leif’s name was misspelled as Lief, and he is 18, not 17. It also said her driveway was made of concrete. It is made of asphalt. 
An obituary on Tuesday about Nancy Hicks Maynard, a newspaper publisher and journalism educator, included a number of errors.
A review Sunday of the book “Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World” contained several errors. Randy Mehrberg is not “an energy tycoon.” He is a spokesman for Exelon Corp., an energy firm, whose CEO, John Rowe, kept an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus in his office; it was Rowe who donated the sarcophagus to a Chicago museum. The Metropolitan Museum’s Lydian Hoard was returned to Turkey, not Italy. Former Getty Museum curator Marion True has pleaded not guilty to charges in Italy, not Greece, for actions supposedly taken in Greece. She has not been convicted of any crime. Napoleon did not “lift” the Mona Lisa from the Italians. He took the Mona Lisa with him wherever he traveled as emperor, but it was already in French hands, having been bought by King Francis I, who gave Leonardo da Vinci a place at his court near the end of the artist’s life. Moreover, the newspaper inadvertently jumped the gun on the review; the book will be published in November.
Recidivist Guardian: despite previous corrections and/or stylebook warnings, we referred (page 11, August 1) to an accident on the road to the Sandbanks peninsular, instead of peninsula; we misspelled the former French president Mitterrand, calling him Mitterand (French politicians accused of assisting Rwandan genocide, page 15, August 6); Joint European Taurus (caption to picture with an obituary for Nicol Peacock, page 34, August 7) should have been Torus; and on August 8 (Credit crunch: live the crisis, see the movie) we again turned the financial analyst Warren Buffett Warren Buffet. Restaurateurs, a frequent Guardian casualty, became restauranters (Today’s picks, page 2, July 31). Fresher errors in recent days have included: “As a US serviceman he was in charge of martialling photographic evidence at the Nuremberg trial” (Still a contender, page 26, G2, 30 July) - that should have been marshalling; on August4 we quoted the Archbishop of Canterbury as calling for a “moratoria” on same-sex blessings and the consecration of gay clergy” - he’s more likely to have recommended “a moratorium”, or “moratoria” without the indefinite article; while the “cut-glass annunciation” of a female pony club luminary (King’s event is thrilling, not just heir-raising, page 12, Sport, August 7) is more likely to have been an enunciation. 
“Mad Men”: Last Sunday’s article about the series “Mad Men” said that cast member January Jones would appear this summer on NBC’s series “Fear Itself.” Cast member Elisabeth Moss will be on that show. Also, the article said that “Mad Men” creator Matt Weiner wrote the series’ pilot while he was a writer on “The Sopranos.” He wrote the pilot before he worked on “The Sopranos.” Finally, the caption with a photograph showing cast members of the show incorrectly identified actor Mark Kelly as Rich Sommer. 
An article last Thursday about designer sunglasses misstated the given name and misspelled the surname of an executive with a sunglass retailer. He is Rick Talmage, not Richard Talmadge. It also misidentified the company for which he is the chief operating officer. It is the Solstice Sunglass Boutique chain — not Safilo, which is Solstice’s parent company.
In Wednesday’s endorsements of candidates for Houston County Commission, Larry Thomson’s name was spelled incorrectly and the picture that ran was not of him. The Telegraph regrets the error - The editors.
An article on June 27 about the stabbing death of a teenage girl after an altercation aboard a New York City bus, and the arrest of a Queens man, included an erroneous location from the police for the bus stop where the suspect, Winston Alladin, boarded. He got on at Parsons Boulevard and Archer Avenue — not Archer and Jamaica Avenues, which run parallel. The article also misidentified the location of the school where the victim, Keyanna Jones, had just finished her freshman year, and misidentified the campus she attended. John Adams High School is in Ozone Park, not Far Rockaway, and she took classes at the annex in South Ozone Park, not at the main campus.
Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about negotiations over a security agreement between Iraq and the United States, under which private security contractors would no longer be immune from Iraqi law, gave an outdated name for a private security contractor with a reputation in Iraq for excessive force. It is Blackwater Worldwide, not Blackwater USA. (The error also appeared in an article last 
In the July 1 paper, a story on page 16, “Viewpointe Offering a Cheap Connection for Small Banks, page 16, had several errors. First, it misdescribed Viewpointe’s new Internet connectivity service, which uses an existing file-sharing application, not a new software product. The story also misstated Viewpointe’s ownership structure; it is owned by five banks and International Business Machines.
A story published June 30 about a forest fire hitting two remote communities in northern Saskatchewan said the Stony Mountain federal penitentiary was evacuated. In fact, the penitentiary is in Manitoba, is not near the fire-affected areas and was not evacuated. 
An article on June 8 about problems with New York City’s new policy of moving troubled teenagers out of group homes and into foster care misstated the reason that two teenage boys left the home of one foster mother, Mary Chancie, after six months and misstated the age of the older one during that time. The boys both left to live with relatives, as planned; neither “lasted only six months” because of behavioral problems. The older boy was 17 at the time, not 19. (He stayed with Ms. Chancie again for four months when he was 19; that departure was prompted by behavioral problems, Ms. Chancie said. Since the article was published, he has returned to her home.)
In the article “Alps are no go without snow” we said the measurement stations are between 200 and 1800 metres above snow level: that should have been above sea level. The study counted snow days, not snowfall; and the 60 per cent decline was for the Swiss plateau between Zurich, Bern and Basel, and not the Swiss Alps. 
A May 31 Page One article on 
In a May 29 obituary for comedian Harvey Korman, The Associated Press misidentified two recurring sketches in which he appeared on “The Carol Burnett Show.” They were “The Family,” not “Ed and Eunice,” and “Carol and Sis,” not “Old Folks at Home.”-
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