John Maynard Smith, speculating on the appreciation of music at a conference last week, described his friend J. B. S. Haldane, eminent scientist, philosopher and one-time Communist Party member, who was so tone deaf that his companions had to tell him when "God save the King" was being played . . . "so he would know not to stand up".
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