Word: vestals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jazz purists are no less vestal-vinegary than long-haired music lovers, and not much more numerous. (What the great public calls jazz is mere popular music. ) The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is irreverent in both directions. Announcer Gene Hamilton ("Dr. Gino"), who ordinarily handles such programs as the NBC Symphony and the Firestone hour, solemnly voices puns, non sequiturs (written by Scripter Welbourn Kelley), identifies a composition as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left," or "a small-fry rhapsody with no particular point," or "a slightly undernourished D Minor." Vice presidents seem to fascinate...