OBITUARIES
An obituary last Sunday about Bernard Mayes, a former Anglican priest who started the first suicide hotline in the United States and was later the founding chairman of National Public Radio, paraphrased incorrectly a passage in his autobiography, “Escaping God’s Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest.” Mr. Mayes, who was gay, wrote that he was drawn to the priesthood through his attraction to another churchgoer, who was not gay and who at one time intended to become a priest. He did not say he entered the priesthood “after being seduced by a member of the clergy.” The obituary also gave an outdated telephone number for the federally financed national suicide hotline. It is 1-800-273-8255, no longer 1-800-SUICIDE. (Calls to that number, which did receive federal financing for several years, have been rerouted to the current number since 2007.)
ARTS & LEISURE
An article last Sunday about Bradley Cooper, who is starring in a Broadway revival of “The Elephant Man,” referred incorrectly to the London address where Joseph Carey Merrick — the real Elephant Man — exhibited himself. The address is now a sari store — it is not, our sincerest apologies, “a sorry store.”
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