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voice a note which set our old cartridge off its rocker, so we couldn't listen to the record. Now since Jack installed the new one we have been able for the first time to enjoy that record.

Last week end we had the Finks (owners of Penelope) over. As you may have heard, they are both musicians, she a metzosoprano and he a composer and keyboard instrument player. Like most young musicians, they have no money, especially since coming back from Europe, and hence no records or phonograph. We played records for them and it was a real pleasure to watch their reactions: she listening intently to the singers, he frowning at the lack of tune of the orchestras and noting the compositional quirks. We ended up playing records all evening, while they told us stories about the performers and composers. He has had some honors already. When a play-with-music, The Caucasian Circle of Chalk, was preformed here at the university, he [[strikethrough]] wor [[/strikethrough]] wrote the musical score (the original was lost in Germany). Later, Eric Bentley (the translator) and others got [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] his [[strikethrough]] sp [[/strikethrough]] script to use on Broadway for the play's production there and lately an English woman has been asking him to copy it again for use in the British Commonwealth. There's not a cent of money in it, in fact he loses money since he will have to have it duplicated here, but it does sound good. He also has composed a short opera. We haven't heard anything except one performance of The Magic Flute here in which Bonnie had the main female lead and Myron was playing the celeste. They were both very good.

What an earth-shaking event! The oyster roast on Saturday!

Oh, Jack is carrying three courses as planned: quantum mechanics (physics of atomic-size bodies), computer design, and solid state physics [[strikethrough]] (under the creator of the transistor for Bell labs).  
Love, 
Doris