As he sat alone in the dining room having his supper, he smiled to himself at the thought of someone mixing him up with Tom Furlong, a local elderly member of the Knights of Columbanus.
A few minutes later, Mr. Brown, 28, who had faced a potential sentence of roughly five years, was accepting handshakes from jurors, and from federal agents and prosecutors, who appeared shaken as they delivered profuse apologies for mixing him up with another Preston Brown.
His testimony stated very clearly that, oh hang on, I've mixed him up with my postman".
"I'd like to mix him with other songs," she says, "like they're doing now with these dance DJs.
It also mixes him up with the Cambridge spy ring in a way that seriously impugns his historical reputation – and is completely untrue.
When Tom Rath, the hero of Sloan Wilson's 1955 novel "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," comes home to Connecticut each day from his job in Manhattan, his wife mixes him a Martini.
The Afghan government investigation, not yet made public, has concurred with what all the local residents said – there was no Mullah Shamsuddin there and they must have mixed him up with a student named Shamsurrahman.
It was unfortunate that just three weeks after she started she landed them with a massive libel suit for saying that George Galloway stole his girlfriend's knickers - she had mixed him up with some other MP.
I replied to his greeting, although from the start I was sure that I didn't know him and that he was mistaken, but I behaved as if I knew him, as if I, too, had mixed him up with someone else, so the two of us greeted each other as we attempted ineffectively to climb those shining (yet deeply humble) stone steps.
Mickey, the protagonist of Sendak's second part of the trilogy, his 1970 book In The Night Kitchen, falls through the dark, through solid floors, down into the night kitchen where giant bakers, who all look exactly like Oliver Hardy - an uncanny monstrous touch - mix him into a bowl of batter before he escapes and moulds an airplane out of dough.
Murrow is the prisoner of some strenuous opinions, but his admirers and detractors agree that it is difficult to catch him mixing them up with the facts.
