Letters
Letters &der Von Braun Your September issue, in ‘Tilting at Windmills’, falsely attributes the tribute to Wernher von Braun-“He aimed for the stars but sometimes he hit London”-to White House...
...We asked her if she had attempted to correct it...
...I do not head the Washington office of Brown/Dowling, Ltd...
...Bellows, which she followed with this letter: To confirm our telephone conversation and set the record straight: I am an independent communications consultant...
...The phrase really belongs to Mort Sahl...
...Bellow’s call, we talked to Amanda Brown, co-owner of Brown/ Dowling, who also denied the Fliess story...
...Apparently Mr...
...Letters &der Von Braun Your September issue, in ‘Tilting at Windmills’, falsely attributes the tribute to Wernher von Braun-“He aimed for the stars but sometimes he hit London”-to White House speechwriter Jerry Doolittle...
...Bellows says she had no knowledge of the Journal and Constitution story...
...But the background of our-and Flied-mistake is worth recounting...
...KEVEN R. BELLOWS Washington, D.C...
...F. PETER MODEL New York, New York Public Relations In last month’s ‘Tfdbits and Outrages’ column, we printed the following item: “The Washington office of the Brown/ Dowling public relations firm is headed by Keven Bellows...
...I wish to emphasize my belief that such a potentially damaging item should have been checked with me directly before publication...
...I await eagerly the appearance of a correction in your next issue...
...Her husband, James Bellows, is editor of The Washington Star...
...We wonder what the Star’s editorial position was when it was disclosed that Marion Javits, wife of the senator from New York, was doing public relations work for Iran...
...Doolittle not only suffers from plagiarism but also from insomnia...
...we were wrong, and we’re sorry...
...Whereas the false information initially may have come from another source, the thoroughly unfounded and unpleasant insinuations were obviously your own, and these, I am afraid, you must assume responsibility for...
...As soon as the issue appeared on the newsstands we received a call from Mrs...
...Fliess added that the Japanese government was a client of Brown/Dowling...
...One of Mrs...
...Bellows’ clients is the Japanese government, and the Star runs a lot of articles about Japan...
...The work that I do as a professional in no way conflicts with any interest of James Bellows...
...The editors reply: Our information did come from another source (a story by Maurice Fliess in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution of July 24, 1977), but that’s no excuse...
...The Government of Japan is not my client...
...JOHN COX Flushing, New York The line, “I aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London,” was actually written 17 years ago by MIT mathematicianlsongwriter Tom Lehrer, following the world premiere, in Huntsville, Alabama, of Columbia Pictures’ spectacular dud, I Aim For The Stars, starring Curt Jurgens as the multinational patriot...
...She said, “No, it didn’t do any harm down here...
...In his Journal and Constitution story, Fliess wrote: “Now heading the Washington office of Brown/Dowling is Keven Bellows, whose husband, Jim Bellows, is editor of The Washington Star...
...This 1960 biopic, which crashed shortly thereafter somewhere west of oblivion, turns up from time to time on the Late Late Show...
...The answer was Mike Dowling, Amanda Brown’s partner...
...After Mrs...
...Now that she does know, we wonder if she will continue to associate herself with a firm one partner of which misrepresents her role and the other partner of which fails to correct the misrepresentation, the obvious effect of which was to impress Atlantans with Brown/Dowling’s influential Washington connections...
...We then called the Washington bureau of the Journal and Constitution and asked who had been the source for the story...
Vol. 9 • November 1977 • No. 9
