Professor Hyde

December, 1961

Henry Hyde, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology, had for precisely one year suffered a violent and unrequited craving for the wife of a faculty colleague at Merryweather College; and here it was, Christmas Eve again, the annual eggnog fest, the anniversary of the onset of his unhappy hunger. His prey stood blonde and breasty, gaudy, apathetic, peering with great violet eyes into a foaming cup while Claude Revanche, of Romance Languages, spitefully abused prominent statesmen.Hyde wiped off hi...