Is Alexandra Silver the pen name or nom de blume of Margalit Fox, or it this another Leslie Buck faux obit?

Leslie Buck

By Alexandra Silver
TIME MAGAZINE OBITS WRITER, aka ''Margalit Fox'' - apparently, [same person?

May 17 issue


Even those whose caffeine loyalties lie firmly with Starbucks are probably familiar with New York City's iconic blue, white and gold Grecian-style coffee cup. It's as much a symbol of New York as the Empire State Building, and no doubt the city's landscape would have been less colorful if it hadn't been for Leslie Buck, the man behind the Anthora. He had no formal artistic training, but Buck, who died April 26 at 87, designed the "We are happy to serve you" cardboard cup in the 1960s. Born Laszlo Büch in what was then Czechoslovakia, he survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald before moving to the U.S., where he eventually worked for the Sherri Cup Company. Buck's creation--inspired by the city's many Greek-owned diners and whose name reflects Buck's pronunciation of amphora, a type of ancient Greek vase--became ubiquitous. Today, however, the true Anthora is made only by request. The many knockoffs produced over the years serve as a testament to the original's appeal.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1987595,00.html#ixzz0nu8tUwFV
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Tempest in a coffee cup?

Dear Editor, TIME magazine

Re: "Leslie Buck" (May 17): There is no documented proof that the late Leslie Buck actually designed the Anthora (sic) coffee cup. In addition, while TIME says the name came from the way Buck mis-pronounced the word Amthora, a type of Greek vase, other accounts say the word was a typo in a 1963 magazine article about Greek vases that Buck's paper cup firm copied without fact-checking. Maybe TIME should have done some fact-checking, too.

-- Dan Bloom