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Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society
Club Notice - 06/13/97 -- Vol. 15, No. 50
MT Chair/Librarian:
Mark Leeper MT 3E-433 732-957-5619 mleeper@lucent.com
HO Chair: John Jetzt MT 2E-530 732-957-5087 jetzt@lucent.com
HO Librarian: Nick Sauer HO 4F-427 732-949-7076 njs@lucent.com
Distinguished Heinlein Apologist:
Rob Mitchell MT 2D-536 732-957-6330 rlmitchell1@lucent.com
Factotum: Evelyn Leeper MT 3E-433 732-957-2070 eleeper@lucent.com
Back issues at http://www.geocities.com/~ecl.
All material copyright by author unless otherwise noted.
The Science Fiction Association of Bergen County meets on the
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201-933-2724 for details. The New Jersey Science Fiction Society
meets on the third Saturday of every month in Belleville; call
201-432-5965 for details. The Denver Area Science Fiction
Association meets 7:30 PM on the third Saturday of every month at
Southwest State Bank, 1380 S. Federal Blvd.
1. URL of the week:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0515120111/9290-9785005-
248064.
It's ugly, I know, but it gets you directly to the description of
VIRUS, written by Bell Labs' own Bill Buchanan. See page 2 of the
May 16 "Bell Labs News" for more information. His internal URL is
http://www.mv.lucent.com/APPL/bu/. [-ecl]
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2. Well this is what I get for not proofreading the notice better.
Here I was telling people that just about nobody knows the real
name of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." EVEN EVELYN
did not know the real title. So what does she do? She has as the
first item a URL for the text of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde." And she gives the correct name. Talk about being
fed the answers before being asked the question! All you people
who people who said "I know! I know! It's 'The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'" are on a par with Herbert W. Stemple and
Charles Van Doren. And if you don't know who they were, look
around the notice. Maybe Evelyn hid the answer someplace. (I
assume many of you do know about Stemple and Van Doran.)
As for the question about OUR AMERICAN COUSIN, I got answers back
from
- Lance Larsen
- Susan Wysk
- Lester Meyers
- Bob Devney
- David Long
- Pete Rubinstein
- Paul Chisholm (of course Paul was one of the people who
originally had to be told the answer)
- Ian Gahan (a Scot who knows more American history than some
Americans apparently)
- Joe Ziegler
- Maurice Burns
- Jay Carter
- and last but not least one Harold Leeper (Happy Father's Day,
Dad).
Each of them knew that Abraham Lincoln saw the first part of the
play, but did not stay to the end. Actually, I suspect that nobody
got to see the end of play that night. One wonders if they got
rainchecks to come back another night to see the end of the play.
So much for "the show must go on." I guess it surprises me how few
people know that it was the play Lincoln was watching when he was
shot. Somehow that is the first fact I associate with the play.
Humor was a little different in those days so I doubt many would
like it now. The kind of joke that was in the play was to say that
a characters's brother had been on a shooting excursion with a
party of crows, some of which were six feet high. When someone
objects that there are no birds that big, he is informed that they
are really Crow Indians. That is the kind of knee-slapper Lincoln
was subjected to on his last night. Booth may have been more
merciful than people realize. (I am assuming I don't have to
explain who Booth was.) And interesting coincidence has come up on
the this question. Counting Evelyn, me, and non-member Art
Snowden, fifteen people have so far responded with the name
"Lincoln". (Sorry, Bill Higgins, but I have to disqualify you on
the technicality that you knew the answer, but did not give it.)
Four of them graduated from Massachusetts high schools the same
year I did. Of those Evelyn is the only one who did not graduate
from Longmeadow High School. Maybe teaching standards were
different elsewhere. Actually of 15 people who knew the answer,
five I know of have some connection to Massachusetts.
Bob Devney actually corrected me that the original title is
"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Later publications
added the definite article at the beginning. That's what I get for
being smug. [-mrl]