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-- Dear Mr. Buckley: I noticed in your Dec. 31 issue that W. H. von Dreele committed a common but regrettable error in his poem "Daschle's Guilty Pleasure." The seventh reindeer in Clement Clarke Moore's poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," was named Donder by Mr. Moore, not Donner.

I can't imagine myself pointing this out to any other publication, but I thought that you, of all people, would like to know.

Louis H. Sanford

Elk Rapids, Mich.

Dear Mr. Sanford: Mr. Buckley's

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Concerning Donner/Donder; since the