Fish Story

Every Saturday the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune devotes a section to pet fish. One week it is guppyis, the next, Siamese fighters, the next, Black Mollies. Last week the headline read : SALT FOUND EFFECTIVE REMEDY FOR MANY ILLS OF TROPICAL FISH Beneath appeared a picture of ''A pearl danio, showing the hump-backed appearance sometimes developed by old specimens."

Readers interested in the ailing old danio plunged hopefully into the story that followed. They read:

"The greatest danger in the United States at the present time is the 'cabal of undercover Socialists' known as the 'brain trust.' Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Republican, of the 26th Congressional District, New York, said last night. . . ."

The story, a dozen paragraphs long, said nothing about pearl danio, nothing about salt remedies. Not until the next edition did Herald Tribune editors catch an error caused by "slugging" the Republican remarks of the vociferous New York Congressman under his own name.

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