On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Hans Havermann wrote:
Dan: "And of course your discovery of when Mrs. Pinchot died brings more doubt about the reliability of Quote Investigator." To be fair to Garson O'Toole (the Quote Investigator), there had been (since 1919) a *second* Mrs. Pinchot. But if that person denied authorship of the poem I'm certain that Claire MacMurray must have meant the *first*. ;)
There's also the very likely possibility that the quoted example wasn't the first time she'd been credited with the poem and that she'd denied it at an earlier date. These things never die, even in the face of debunking, and especially not in the face of death of the principals. -- Tom Duff. It puts something of a damper on the discussion of jello howitzers.