Cambridge, mass, (up) — Somebody pulled a fast one today on Harvard University, the nation’s press services and the editors of all client papers. A story was carried on the news wires this morning reporting that Harvard’s electronic brain had disappeared. There was no basis of fact for the story. The brain is still at Harvard. It was never missing. No one knows how the story was placed on the press wires of the various news services but all of them carried it, at approximately the same time. All parties concerned have started an investigation and it is hoped that an explanation …
Crane straightened up. Illusion or cover-up?
‘Illusion,’ he said aloud.
The typewriter clacked at him in the stillness of the kitchen.
Not illusion, Joe, it wrote.
He grasped the table’s edge and let himself down slowly into the chair.
Something scuttled across the dining-room floor, and as it crossed the streak of light from the kitchen door Crane caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eyes.
The typewriter chattered at him. Joe!
‘What?’ he asked.
That wasn’t a cat out in the bushes by the porch.