Music: Cubbyhole Canteen

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.

The 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.

The flute and the teacher (Mrs. Vitya Vronsky of the piano-team of...

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