Ever wonder if there was a real Murphy behind “Murphy’s Law” – “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”?
This is a four-part article, and the last two installments won’t be printed for another week. I won’t spoil the story by posting excerpts from it here, but I will say that the real Murphy was Captain Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. He was at the famed Edwards Air Force Base (where I used to work, decades later) in 1947 when the “Law” came about…