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...wish I remembered more of what F.O. Matthessen had to say in his lectures, and Archibald Macleish's stories about Hemingway in Paris as we sat in his Widener office with the spring sun streaming through the window, but I remember the teepee swaying, and the rabbit on the Great Hall table and the tuba player from the Boston Pops who played solo at a cocktail party we gave in Eliot B-42. The tuba player said he'd never been asked to do such a thing before--to play alone at a cocktail party, and he truly enjoyed...

Author: By George A. Plimpton, HARVARD CLASS OF 1948 | Title: Passing Geography, Playing the Tuba, and Partying the Night Away | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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