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...letters got results. In the spring of '61 there were rumors that Weld Hall, the one-time freshman residence of both Potter's friends and John Kennedy, might be remodeled. Potter sent a third carbon plea, carefully typed to look like a form letter with a "Save Weld Committee" letterhead, to President Kennedy. The letter explained that Weld should be preserved in its original state as an historic monument because "a President of the United States slept there." Unlike almost every piece of mail the White House receives, the letter never received any acknowledgement...
...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...
...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...
...Potter's Picks...
...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...