Off tropic

Nice obit from the Nation's Newspaper of Record*, but ...

He eventually set aside the Herb-O-Lac for a skin liniment he unapologetically called Snake Oil, but his most enduring commodity was his nostalgic pitch.

... do you figure there's one "r" too many in "topical" there?

Now let's start a pool on how many words the Times uses to describe a redeout in the correction.

* Thanks to RayB and the Central Ohio Bureau for keeping print in business; this doesn't appear online.