Mats writes:

>Now I invite others to tell about their best musical gifts they have got.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean police action, an older friend of
immediately draftable age got married, thereby staving off the draft board,
while I had a student deferment.  He gave me a 45 rpm recording of Brahms'
Academic Festival Overture w/ a little note saying, "Gaudeamus igitur;
milites non sumus."

wm