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For years Jack has added nothing to the collection and meanwhile records have been suffering in transit, hot weather of his first summer in D;C., etc. So we have sent off to the big store (biggest), Goode's in New York. It is a discount house which offers further discounts if you use their forms; a friend is sending in for us. They have everything. No matter how obscure. And some of my requests were certainly that. I am so glad I took the music appreciation course in college; it acquainted me with the older music (pre-Bach) which most people do not know. Jack isn't as familiar with it, so I hope my selections will be a surprise to him. They will probably be a surprise to me too, since I have not heard them in years! I think Jack has words to add.

Doris has already mentioned everything I was going to report, so I feel at a loss for words. I have nothing to say about what I do, other than the social activities Doris has described. All I do is go to class and study. What I study is utterly without interest to non-physicists, and most of it isn't of much interest to physicists, either.
One of my professors is taking time out to explain what Polykarp Kusch got his Nobel prize for. This, too, is not too fascinating, but it brings to mind a story I heard. A [[strikethrough]] fell [[/strikethrough]] fellow here had a friend at Columbia who used to finish every statement he made on physics with, "That's what Polykarp Kusch says," or "That's the way Polykarp Kusch looks at it." He thought Polykarp Kusch was a mythological character, like Kilroy or Joe Blow. He was flabbergasted when he heard the name of this year's Nobel Prize winner in physics.

Jack