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707 West Springfield
Urbana, Illinois
October 9, 1959

According to Chicago newspapers, Karl Schmidt took a few simple remedies (sucked wound), but was under the  incorrect impression that the snake's poison was annoying but not deadly.

Dear folks, 

I don't really see what we would be concealing regarding the auto accident. What didn't even dent the back of the car was hardly even felt by its occupants. Jack didn't even know we'd been hit.

Hans Frauenfelder is back from Italy and Germany, where (g.) he spent the summer lecturing. He had quite a reputation for rushing his graduate students (and himself) in long hours of hurried work. Jack was a little worried about becoming part of this rush. However, two papers he recently published turned out to have the wrong, &] incorrect results, and this has sobered him quite a good deal. He will slow down & be more careful, the story goes.

The equipment with which Frauenfelder and the group close to him (including Jack) will be experimenting won't be finished until January, & experimentation may begin in March. Until then Jack will be supervising part of its construction & attending to details himself, working more or less 8-hour days and then studying at night. He plans to take the German proficiency in ten days (he is in