The epigraphs in *GR*

[Murthy Yenamandra]

jbor writes:
> Nice thought. There seems to have been some doubt regarding the attribution
> of the von Braun quote in the archives, from the redoubtable Tim Ware no
> less:
> > From: timware at crl.com (Tim Ware)
> > Date: 2 Feb 1996 22:43:27 -0800
> > [...] If the Grandma
> > Moses bit doesn't convince, a bit of checking reveals no such volume
> > entitled "The Third Book of Words to Live By."

A bit of further checking indicates there is indeed such a book, unless the
Library of Congress is in on the hoax. Here is the relevant record:

    LC Control Number: 62009598  
    Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.) 
    Brief Description: Nichols, William Ichabod, 1905- ed.
        The third book of Words to live by; selected and interpreted by seventy-eight eminent men and women.
        New York, Simon and Schuster, 1962.
        224 p. 21 cm. 
    CALL NUMBER: BJ1548 .N5 1962
    Copy 1 
    -- Request in: Jefferson or Adams Bldg General or Area Studies Reading Rms 
    -- Status: Not Charged 

You can look it up yourself at "http://lcweb.loc.gov".

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
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