“Correction: January 20, 1999, Wednesday An obituary on Saturday about Naomi Mitchison, the British writer and early feminist, misspelled the surname of the Labour Party leader at whom she once threw a half-plucked partridge. He was Hugh Gaitskell, not Gaitskill.”

—Essential correction to Mitchison’s obituary in the NEW YORK TIMES

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