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...Symphony's Elayne Jones, 38, surmounted three handicaps: she is a woman, a timpanist and a Negro. When she appeared with the Symphony of the Air a few years ago, she says, "two guys walked out after I walked in." In the Detroit Symphony's band room, Harpist Elyze Yockey, 37, is forever hearing somebody mutter, "Why don't you stay home and take care of your babies?" (She has two.) One man expressed his disapproval of his curvaceous desk mate by twisting the tuning pegs of her cello until it sounded like a sick...
...Geoff Muldaur, 20, plays mandolin, guitar, kazoo and, most rewardingly, washboard. He was the National Washboard Co.'s "Soap Saver." Muldaur has modified his washboard by tacking it up against another washboard and stuffing old socks between the two grates to "give it a fatter sound." Mouth-Harpist Mel Lyman, 25, distinguishes between his instrument and the harmonica by saying, "People who play the harmonica are hung...
...evening started with the President presiding over half the guests at a dinner in the State Dining Room, while Jackie was hostess to the others in the Blue Room. There were some Melachrino echoes of the past: the Air Force Strolling Strings (20 wall-to-wall violinists and a harpist) playing Victor Herbert dinner music. Then, after dinner, everyone repaired to the East Room, and the tone and tempo changed abruptly. Casals and his noted colleagues, Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, had decided to forgo the dinner in favor of a short rest and a warm-up rehearsal...
...down the drainpipe like two messages in a department-store tube." Dan lusts after Rosalie Fallen, rubs faces with Pattie Donahue, very nearly vloops with Eva Masters, does so gladly (and improbably) with a commercial lady named Black Lil. And marries, in the happy epilogue, beautiful Lucille Lake, girl harpist. The book, as its author confesses, is a "piratical, lying map of boyhood," which is the only kind worth having, and perhaps the only kind there...
Died. Vicki (born Hedwig) Baum, 72, a Viennese-born harpist and Berlin magazine editor, author of more than 30 novels, who-following her 1931 bestseller and Broadway smash, Grand Hotel-took up film writing in Hollywood ("where, thank heaven, I failed, and so saved my life") and U.S. citizenship ("I fell in love with the country"), but never again equaled her first success; of leukemia; in Hollywood...