...Due to a series of slips and mishaps it was set in type and appeared in the paper...
Mike,
I trust you were young and inexperienced.
I never, ever, put anything in any story which would cause problems if it found its way into print.
A similar incident happened at the Portsmouth News in the days of paper page plans.
In the headline space for the Bognor football report, someone wrote: "Fat boy waffles on about Bognor" - the reporter carried a little excess weight.
Needless to say, it appeared as the headline.
The plan was compiled before the result of the game was known, so the proper headline could not have been used.
What should have been written was: 'headline in here', or: 'Bognor report'.
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