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Word: potters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Potter must have suspected at times that the guilty secret of his non-existence was out. His name was in the CRIMSON telephone book, and one day a girl called and invited him to a mixer in Holmes. His friends said that Stephen was at the library, and when he tried to call her back later he was told that she was at the library. That was the closest he was able to come to a normal social life...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Life and Times of Stephen Potter | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

...Potter's creators' friends, an alumnus of Eng Sci 110, decided to join him on his adventures and started turning in problem sets with Potter's name to Eng Sci 110. The solutions were always perfect, and the professor almost always referred to them in class and posted them as models, sometimes saying hopefully "If Stephen Potter is here, will he please come forward?" One of the lab assistants called him to ask why he never came to lab, and Potter had to admit that he wasn't registered for the course...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Life and Times of Stephen Potter | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

...Potter's Picks...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Life and Times of Stephen Potter | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

...addicted to the radio, especially to one program on WHDH. Every week the announcer quoted from "Potter's Picks of the Week" sent to him by Stephen. One day he played a song called "Velvet Nights." Potter's friends knew someone who had been a delegate to the 1957 World Communist Youth Meeting, where "Velvet Nights" had been called "Midnight in Moscow" and had been the meeting's theme song...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Life and Times of Stephen Potter | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

...Potter wrote the station a fiery letter denouncing the subterfuge involved in changing the name and not letting listeners know it was a Communist song. A while later, when the station played the song on a different label, which in fact did use the name "Midnight in Moscow," Potter wrote to the announcer that the song would be extremely popular now that it had an honest title. It was, because his friends sent one or two postcards a day, with different handwritings, requesting the song. By the end of the week, the announcer reported that "Midnight in Moscow...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Life and Times of Stephen Potter | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

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