The fate of acousticians

He has never again encountered the most esteemed Arkady Apollonovich Sempleyarov in connection with acoustical problems. The latter was quickly transferred to Bryansk and appointed director of a mushroom-growing center. Nowadays, Moscow residents eat pickled saffron milk caps and marinated white mushrooms with endless relish and praise, and never stop rejoicing in the lucky transfer. Since it is all a matter of the past now, we feel free to say that Arkady Apollonovich never did make any headway with acoustics, and, for all his efforts to improve the sound, it remained as bad as it was.