The following piece of doggerel was delivered in an after‐dinner talk by Harvard particle theorist Sheldon L. Glashow, once a California physicist himself. He spoke at the APS New England Sectional Meeting on 12 October at Northeastern University.

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“Limits on charmed‐meson production in e+e− annihilation at 4.8 GeV center of mass energy,”
A. M.
Boyarski
,
M.
Breidenbach
,
F.
Bulos
,
J. T.
Dakin
,
G. J.
Feldman
,
D.
Fryberger
,
G.
Hansen
,
D.
Hartill
,
B.
Jean‐Marie
,
R. R.
Larsen
,
D.
Lüke
,
V.
Lüth
,
H. L.
Lynch
,
D.
Lyon
,
C. C.
Morehouse
,
J. M.
Paterson
,
M. L.
Perl
,
T. P.
Pun
,
R. A.
Rapidis
,
B.
Richter
,
R. F.
Schwitters
,
W.
Tanenbaum
,
F.
Vannucci
,
G. S.
Abrams
,
D. D.
Briggs
,
W.
Chinowsky
,
C. E.
Friedberg
,
G.
Goldhaber
,
R. J.
Hollebeek
,
J. A.
Kadyk
,
A. M.
Litke
,
B. A.
Lulu
,
F. M.
Pierre
,
B.
Sadoulet
,
G. H.
Trilling
,
J. S.
Whitaker
,
F. C.
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,
J. E.
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,
J. E.
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2.
“Observation in e+e− annihilation of a narrow state at 1865 MeV/c2 decaying to Kπ and Kπππ,”
G.
Goldhaber
,
F. M.
Pierre
,
G. S.
Abrams
,
M. S.
Alam
,
A. M.
Boyarski
,
M.
Breidenbach
,
W. C.
Carithers
,
W.
Chinowsky
,
S. C.
Cooper
,
R. G.
DeVoe
,
J. M.
Dorfan
,
G. J.
Feldman
,
C. E.
Friedberg
,
D.
Fryberger
,
G.
Hanson
,
J.
Jaros
,
A. D.
Johnson
,
J. A.
Kadyk
,
R. R.
Larsen
,
D.
Lüke
,
V.
Lüth
,
H. L.
Lynch
,
R. J.
Madaras
,
C. C.
Morehouse
,
H. K.
Nguyen
,
J. M.
Patterson
,
M. L.
Perl
,
I.
Peruzzi
,
M.
Piccolo
,
T. P.
Pun
,
P.
Rapidis
,
B.
Richter
,
B.
Sadoulet
,
R. H.
Schindler
,
R. F.
Schwitters
,
J.
Siegrist
,
W.
Tanenbaum
,
G. H.
Trilling
,
F.
Vannucci
,
J. S.
Whitaker
,
J. E.
Wiss
,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
37
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3.
“Evidence for the existence of fractional charge on matter,”
G. S.
 
LaRue
,
W. M.
 
Fairbank
,
A. F.
 
Hebard
,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
 
38
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1011
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1977
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“Further evidence for fractional charge on matter,”
G. S.
 
LaRue
,
W. M.
 
Fairbank
,
J. D.
 
Phillips
,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
 
42
,
142
(
1979
);
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“Observation of fractional charge of (1/3) e on matter,”
G. S.
LaRue
,
J. D.
Phillips
,
W. M.
Fairbank
,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
46
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967
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1981
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4.
“First results from a superconductive detector for moving monopoles,”
B.
 
Cabrera
,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
 
48
,
1378
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1982
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“No more Valentines: New induction detectors see no monopoles,” PHYSICS TODAY, April 1984, page 17.
5.
See, for example, “Evidence for anomalous nuclei among relativistic projective fragments from heavy‐ion collisions at 2 GeV/nucleon,”
E.
Friedlander
,
R.
Gimpel
,
H.
Heckman
,
Y.
Karant
,
B.
Judek
,
E.
Ganssauge
,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
45
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1084
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1980
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6.
“A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distances; historical perspective and recent research,”
H. E.
Puthoff
,
R.
Targ
,
Proc. IEEE
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329
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1976
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7.
“Has the Higgs boson been seen in the Crystal Ball?” PHYSICS TODAY, October 1984, page 18.
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