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...also nearly ruined Composer Shostakovich. At the height of the Purge, when Russian nerves were badly frayed and people were plopping into prison like turtles into a pond, Stalin decided to hear Lady Macbeth. He did not like it, walked out before it was over. Murder from boredom struck him as a bourgeois idea. Besides, Stalin's musical taste runs to simple, more tuneful things, zigzags between Beethoven's Eroica and Verdi's Rigoletto. Also, he had a seat directly above the brasses...
...Houghton Pond Visited...
Yesterday the Club conducted a trip for Summer School students to Houghton Pond, where swimming, softball, and hiking provided recreation for five girls and 16 boys...
Sixteen members of the Outing Club with 35 guests in tow set off to Houghton Pond in the Blue Hills from the stops of Widener last Saturday to celebrate a non-explosive Fourth. Entertained with a soft-ball game, swimming, and a three-group like up Blue Hill, and nourished by Howie Oedel '43 and his two assistants, Win Bernard '43 and Bob Townsend '43, the trip ended successfully at 7 o'clock with a bus ride back to Cambridge...
...whole trip would be extremely informal, and that after lunch the group will split up into the "swimmers, hikers, and just hang-arounders." A number of hikes of varying length and difficulty will be organized, each led by an Active member of the Club. The last bus leaves the pond at eight o'clock, although it will be possible for those who wish to to leave earlier...