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johnfowles · 09-26-2003, 09:44 AM

quote from Char above
"that's not the pic I have...."
No! No!! No!!! gord that is a most terrible picture and one which dismayed Susan and I and probably every Lighthead who saw it when it
appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail article on Wednesday the 24th
according to the byline at 7.05 EDT as such and as the caption on-line at least states "Gordon Lightfoot arrives Wednesday for of (sic) his induction........"
Note that that edition of the paper was published on the same day as the event and I am pretty sure there is a story here:-
I would surmise that in their haste to print something quick and
beat the Toronto Star to it the paper grabbed the first picture
they could find and misguidedly published that one. Somebody (Char maybe??)
then created such a hoo-hah that they decided to try for a more reassuring pic
and got one from a more astute photographer (one of their own as you can just read in the caption of the pic below. Whatever happenned the Globe and Mail
certainly published a far better pic on Thursday the 25th (it is not on-line...yet
but Char scanned the actual newspaper) and she then most kindly e-mailed it to a few fans
I have saved it and uploaded it to my own website. So I can now link to it:-

At least in that picture it is possible to see that Gord has not all but lost all of his hair!!
Perhaps in reply to this Char will elaborate on the story

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09-26-2003, 09:44 AM	#10
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote from Char above "that's not the pic I have...." No! No!! No!!! gord that is a most terrible picture and one which dismayed Susan and I and probably every Lighthead who saw it when it appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail article on Wednesday the 24th according to the byline at 7.05 EDT as such and as the caption on-line at least states "Gordon Lightfoot arrives Wednesday for of (sic) his induction........" Note that that edition of the paper was published on the same day as the event and I am pretty sure there is a story here:- I would surmise that in their haste to print something quick and beat the Toronto Star to it the paper grabbed the first picture they could find and misguidedly published that one. Somebody (Char maybe??) then created such a hoo-hah that they decided to try for a more reassuring pic and got one from a more astute photographer (one of their own as you can just read in the caption of the pic below. Whatever happenned the Globe and Mail certainly published a far better pic on Thursday the 25th (it is not on-line...yet but Char scanned the actual newspaper) and she then most kindly e-mailed it to a few fans I have saved it and uploaded it to my own website. So I can now link to it:- At least in that picture it is possible to see that Gord has not all but lost all of his hair!! Perhaps in reply to this Char will elaborate on the story ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 26, 2003).]