In the same issue a misattributed photograph led us to run a picture of Gertrude Lawrence with Ivor Novello instead of Noël Coward (see article).
The head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, for example, thinks that paper overestimated the burden of brain injuries, overstated the cost of replacing munitions and equipment, and misattributed other military expenses.
The work had for decades been in collection of Norwegian industrialist Nicolai Mustad, who died in 1970, but family legend had it that the work was banished to the attic after the French ambassador to Sweden suggested it was a fake or misattributed.
*An earlier version of this post misattributed this quotation.
*Correction: A previous version of this post misattributed a quote.
P.S. Writing in the Oct. 11, 1958, issue of The New Yorker, Whitney Balliett reviewed, negatively, a performance by Jamal (whose age he misattributed as thirty-eight) at a jazz evening with the d.j.j
He would make films inspired by "Rio Bravo," but as personal as "The 400 Blows," in order to take over the mantle of the avant-garde misattributed, he thought, to Resnais.
In time, this bon mot became misattributed to Leona Helmsley, who was only too happy to claim authorship.
A woman sipped something bubbly beneath a quote in chalk, misattributed to Hemingway ("Drink to make other people interesting") and went on about iPhones ("I always get the new one").
*Correction: An earlier version of this post misattributed the creation of the MS-DOS emulator to the software curator Jason Scott.
The survival of the quotation helps insure the survival of the person to whom it is misattributed.
