Word: kinkaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRANK KINKAID...
...Japanese as well as U.S. sources doubles the depth of this incomparably best of World War II service histories. Morison's insistence that it be "unofficial" (though all royalties go to the Navy) gives him room to light the text with judgments-as of Halsey's and Kinkaid's faulty assumptions in the battle for Leyte Gulf-that at times scorch the gold braid off commanding sleeves...
Middle C Sir: Although you were careful enough to twice include in your article the middle name of the Philadelphia Orchestra's retiring flutist, William Morris Kincaid [June 6], you weren't careful enough to correctly spell his last name. It's Kincaid, not Kinkaid. I should know. I was a Kincaid pupil for five years...
...Bill Kinkaid himself thinks that if he has a secret, it must have to do with breath control. A lean, athletic man, he works out on a chinning bar and punching bag in his apartment, finds that his control is always best after a summer of swimming. In his youth, Kinkaid was a champion swimmer in Honolulu, where his Presbyterian minister father was assigned, but he gave up an athletic career for music, studied with the late great Flutist Georges Barrère. He understudied Barrère in the New York Symphony when he was only 17, graduated...
...energetic, hard-drinking man ("He discovered some years ago," said a friend, "that Scotch is the perfect antidote for platinum poisoning"), Kinkaid, 65, has a reputation for driving his students, often summoned them to his house on weekends to play. He himself is so fascinated by the production of sound that he has been known to sit at a soda fountain blowing through a straw in an effort to alter its tone. Even after his retirement from the orchestra, he will continue to teach. His replacement: James Pellerite, formerly of the Detroit Symphony. He is, of course, a student...