The Recording Room sometimes misheard ordinary words, leading to embarrassment or worse for the reporter or subject of the story. One time I was reporting on the volunteer work done by a famous conductor-composer in the New York suburban community in which he lived. I wrote something like, "he gives his time effortlessly on behalf of music." In print it became "he gives his time fruitlessly on behalf of music." The composer was furious and demanded a correction, which he got.