Axel,
I'm not sure Frank Barnes is the real culprit. The way it reads, it seems he wrote the basic text and someone else sent him an erroneous "correction", which he seems to have added with the (*)astrisk. Of course, as editor, he would have been responsible anyway.As you well know, there are other errors in Cartridges of the World, started by contributors and not corrected by whoever was the editor at the time.Also editors sometimes introduce mistakes by adding making their own changes.As usual, I can be wrong.
Mike