On May 26, 6:01*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010 11:14:14 -0700, "Bill Noble"
wrote:
a real loss

Who?
Gunner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gardner

His column was one of the better reasons to read Scientific American,
back when it was worth reading.

jsw