A reader of my Will Sport Save China? review offers a correction.

Mr. Derbyshire: I think that the Senator Robert Taft who talked about the Olympics in 1976 was not the “great Republican” who almost beat Eisenhower for the GOP nomination in 1952, but his significantly less great son, Robert Taft Jr., elected to the Senate in 1970, who was then defeated for re-election in 1976 after one undistinguished term and gave us in his place, the hyper left-wing Howard Metzenbaum.

[Me] My reader is quite right. I was not paying attention to my dates there. I am sorry.

• Taft the greater.

• Taft the lesser.