At the risk of being nitpicky, I think the Tom Lehrer quote is not from "Werner
von Braun" but from another Lehrer song called "Lobachevsky."  --Jim Leonard

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> Friends & fellow Twaniacs,
>
>     A review copy of the version of ROUGHING IT arrived here unto the
> Record-Journal only several weeks ago; we decided not to review it because
> only one cable system in our coverage area carries the Hallmark Channel, and
> apparently only about 6.7 people actually have the darned thing.
>     I will watch it before it airs, however, and issue appropriate warnings
> to fellow forum members as necessary.
>
> Kathy O'Connell
> Record-Journal
> Meriden, Conn.
>
> P.S. There was a fascinating apologia from Ken Burns on l'affaire Doris
> Goodwin in, I think, The Globe today. Once you get really famous, he seemed
> to be saying, people will pick on you no matter what. That kind of indicated
> to me that Burns has done more than his fair share of not giving credit where
> it's due.
>      It brought to mind that throwaway line of Tom Lehrer's in "Werner von
> Braun": "In the academy, we don't call it stealing. We call it research."