I won’t bore anyone with details of how the mistake came about. Suffice to say that at least five different staffers, including myself, proofed that cover at various times, and none of us caught the error. (The accompanying article correctly identifies John throughout.) It was a classic case of missing the forest for the trees. We got so bogged down in the minutiae of watching out for misplaced commas and hyphens, we lost touch with the bigger world around us.
I cringe at the embarrassment suffered by John Landrum, a thoroughly decent human being and industry leader. It is more than matched by my own, though his is different in being unearned.