To give some idea how long the NY Times had Galbraith's unrevised obit on file, the NYT obit includes this remark: "Robert Lekachman, a liberal economist who shared many of Mr. Galbraith's views on an affluent society that they both thought not generous enough to its poor or sufficiently attendant to its public needs, once described the quality of his discourse as 'witty, supple, eloquent, and edged with that sheen of malice which the fallen sons of Adam always find attractive when it is directed at targets other than themselves.'" There is no indication that this is the *late* Robert Lekachman who is being cited. In fact, Lekachman himself died Jan. 14, *1989*.
Carl