OT-- I'm sure this is a "snope"...

On 12/4/04 12:12 AM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:

Although I've learned that my memory is not to
be trusted, I believe the title essay first appeared in a humor mag
published by students in that outstanding engineering school, the
Carnegie Institute of Technology, when I was a student there, circa
1946. It is now known as Carnegie Mellon Univerisy.

Hell, I heard you were professor emeritus there in '46.

Any connection between CIT and JIR that you know of?

Not that I can tell from this:

http://www.jir.com/history.html

Though it doesn't say where Lipkin or Scherr worked. Which could be tracked
down easily enough by someone who knew how to do such things. Me, I'll be
busy up in the anthropology stacks for a while... :-)

Bill