Muzak Hath Charms

In a Washington beauty parlor last week a customer under a drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about to operate clapped earphones on the patient, then used his scalpel while the patient listened to the tune, Lovely to Look At In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, an expectant mother was prepared for delivery of her baby while the strains of Victor Herbert's Toyland...

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