Charles Reynders Jr.? (Sunday "On Language" column)

[Sam Clements]

And I am constantly amazed, as an amateur here, how small a world it is in
this supposed big wide world.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: Charles Reynders Jr.? (Sunday "On Language" column)


> At 1:02 AM -0400 8/30/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/magazine/31ONLANGUAGE.html
> >Charlton Reynders Jr. is the chief executive officer of Reynders, Gray &
> >Company, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange. William Safire is
on
> >vacation.
> >
> >
> >    I was interested to see who would fill in for William Safire this
year.
> >Erin McKean and Jesse Sheidlower had their turns.
> >    Would it be Michael Quinion?  Jonathon Green?  Dave Wilton?  David
> >Barnhart?  Fred Shapiro?  George Thompson?  Gerald Cohen?  Barry
> >Popik?  Who????
> >    It's Charles Reynders Jr.!
>
> Well, there was also a nice tribute two weeks ago by Merryl Maleska
> Wilbur to her father, Eugene Maleska, a lifetime logophile and
> crossword puzzle author, who served as editor of the Times puzzle
> page from 1977 to his death in 1993.  In addition to his other claims
> to fame (including many many crossword books), Maleska was the
> principal of the Edward W. Stitt Junior High School (a.k.a. JHS 164)
> on Edgecomb Avenue in Harlem, in the shadow of the old Polo Grounds,
> when I attended in 1956-57.  I for one don't begrudge him a day of
> belated glory in the On Language column.
>
> larry
>