Noticed this morning that Gary Ott attributes a quote to “Harry James, the late American author.” He should read his Bartlett’s a little closer and correct it to Henry James. Harry was a big band conductor in the forties. Well, we all make mistakes – me more than most so it wouldn’t really be worth mentioning except…does anyone remember how Gary used to introduce his quotations with a feigned familiarity like, “if memory serves, it was the late US author Logan Pearsall Smyth Smith who once said,…” or “I believe it was the French author Voltaire who died in 1778 who said,…” like he just put down freaking Candide before correcting Stuart Doreen’s grammar. Before launching into this diatribe on Mr. Ott, I was reading Winston Churchill, the British statesman who died in 1965, (ok I really found it in Bartlett’s while confirming that Harry James wasn’t worthy of a quote) who said, “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” Hear, Hear!