[78-L] Maybe this is why it took an extra 15 years

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> In the May 1965 issue of High Fidelity, there's a letter from Richard 
> Sears..in
> Bogota, Columbia (!)..asking for information about "U-Discs" for a book he 
> was
> working on and hoped to publish that year (Sears' book finally appeared in 
> 1980).
>
> Let's chalk that one up to a typo..maybe the letter was hand-written. 
> Either
> that or there was a series of discs we don't know about and which were all 
> lost
> when torpedoed by a V-Boat.
>
In many non-English languages, the letters "U" and "V" are not that 
common...
and are thus often confused! Since Colombia is Spanish-speaking, this could
very well have been the cause...?!

...stevenc