May 4, 2005

The Times regrets the error . . . but not as much as the Donna Messenger Skin Care Clinic does . . .

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A notice in the New York Times notes that in its article about Dial-A-Poem earlier this week (see Monday’s MobyLives news digest), it mentioned the telephone number of the service, which ran from 1969 until 1971. Alert readers might have wondered if that number was still in service; Times editors and reporters, however, did not. Apparently, the current owner of the still-in-service number have contacted the Times. As the Times notes, the number “now reaches the Donna Messenger skin care clinic in Manhattan . . . The archives of Dial-A-Poem are available only online.” Also, “The Times regrets the error.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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