From an old NYT obituary of a former violin-competition winner who later went into advertising

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From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here.

NYT:

Mr. Eidus did no military service, and that, too, like so much else in his life, he owed to the violin. One day in the 1940s, he was ordered to report to his local induction center for a physical.

He arrived wearing a tuxedo and carrying his Stradivarius - reasonable accouterments, given that he had a live performance immediately afterward.

The military psychiatrist on duty, Mr. Eidus's son said, took one look at the new recruit's get-up, diagnosed him as suffering delusions of grandeur and pronounced him unfit for duty.

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In truth, he had won the Jacques Thibaud competition in Paris, but later he gave up living out of a suitcase. He became the music director of an ad agency that made lots of radio and later TV commercials.

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Topic - From an old NYT obituary of a former violin-competition winner who later went into advertising - John Marks 18:11:16 03/25/20 (0)

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