Liz Smith screws up again

Last September Liz Smith used the wrong Yiddish word in her gossip column. Today she has this:

OUR PAL Charlie Rose, of the talk-show biz, is one lucky man. When he experienced shortness of breath while working in Syria, he was helped quickly on a plane to Paris and out of the Middle East by Syria's king himself!

The king of Syria? Syria hasn't had a king since 1920, when the French army threw him out!