Steinway News publishes the article about the United States President Richard Nixon presenting Steinway Artist Duke Ellington with presidential Medal of Freedom. In the same issue of the in-house quarterly there’s a story about Scott Newhall, the managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicles, giving the unique 12-legged ornate “art case” Steinway & Sons grand piano to the jazz pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines. The plaque on the piano bears the inscription: “Presented by jazz lovers from all over the world. This piano is the only one of its kind and expresses the great genius of a man who never played a melancholy note in his lifetime on a planet that has often succumbed to despair.”