Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autobiographical-a preview of Novelist Lewis' apprehensions and hopes about the marriage of a middle-aged man to a young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...
...week to a ponderous appraisal of the female mind. The occasion: the annual Miss America contest. The prize: a $5,000 college scholarship offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The winner: Miss New York City, a Hunter College graduate named Bess Myerson, who excels at the flute and pianoforte...
Doctors could do nothing with a brooding G.I. mental patient in Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, until one of them noted on his medical records that he had once been a flutist in a symphony orchestra. They sent for a music teacher and a flute...
...soldier ignored the teacher, but took the flute off by himself. Soon he was playing it, and taking lessons daily. As the memory of music came, his despondency went. Last week he was discharged, a mentally healthy veteran...
...flute and the teacher (Mrs. Vitya Vronsky of the piano-team of Vronsky and Babin) were sent to the hospital by Washington's Music Canteen, an enterprise to make G.I.s their own entertainers...