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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1957)
o o n Wednesday, Oclober 2, 1957 MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Deos Smlih'g By DOC QUIGG TTn;j n...... -- i a 1 New York OF Delos Smith is a 6-foot-2, 210-pound reporter-by-trade who wears an inquisi tive look, from years of questir.d for real facts behind murders, fires, explosions, and such re markable human excursions as the Ku Klux Klan, the Lind bergh kidnaping, and the Sa vaccine discovery, o He also has a slight stoop to his big frame from years of bending .over desks by day, wrangling with words, and bend ing his expert ear at night to ward record players, concert stages, symphonies, and opera. And he also is science editor of an institution that shall not here be nameless the United Press. Bathed in Music This three-way career (he also is U.P. music critic and editor) does not strike him as strange because his overall approach to it is as a reporter, a calling into which' he flung himself at age 18 in the early 1920s over his family's violent objections. They were sure he was going to be a Methodist preacher. He thought otherwise. His family, however, had one victory. They bathed him in music, as he says, "practically from birth." And, as he says in the preface of his new book, -Music In Your Life," published today by Harper: "Although it is a private mat ter, I don't mind saying that if music were taken from my life, the loss would be grievous and, perhaps, insupportable. Private ly, I believe the 45 geniuses des cribed in this book are among the greatest human beings who ever existed. Mozart a Nincompoop "Indeed, it is my private be lief that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the greatest of all human beings. It pains me ex quisitely to have to report to you, in my professional capaci ty, that he was something of a nincompoop." His approach to this book is strictly reportorial. It presents, in one volume, in a series of in timate portraits, the lives of the 46 greatest musical composers across five centuries, from Pales- trina to Gershwin. Smith's in terest in them is as human beings in getting a close, hard : . Ja , a PROTESTING after being arrested for failing to register in Beverly Hills, Calif., as ex -convict, ex mobster Mickey Cohen is rearrested for "inviting arrest.'' (International) Veterans Farm, Home Loan Bonds Sold Salem C the Depart ment of Veterans' Affairs sold S6 million in veterans' farm and home loan bonds today to First National Bank of Portland and associates at an effective inter est rate of 3.332 per cent. This was .322 per cent lower than the all-time high rate paid by the department July 29 in a $15 million issue costing 3.654 per cent. Salem 1P! Secretary of State Mark Hatfield is in - Cleveland for a three-day institute spon sored by the American Psychia tric Association. If . (fu Lesson fm Worth Jrf Knowing BORROW THE American Way LOANS $25 to $1,500 Auto Salary Furniture American Finance Corp. Phone SPring 2-8886 123 W. Main Medford loo at tlooir lives lijies. Hie thasig of Music Given Treatment From Years cs Nevs Reporter ?d person- spite his genius. i he is also a no-nonsense man. He is that each Yovi Do Don't will tell you, in conversation: "I beiag - Smith is a colorful writer, and think there is more blank-blank nonsense about music, more peo-1 say, 'I can't understand music.' pie scared away from it by po- It's not music they don't under seurs, than in any field. People stand; it's neurotic attitudes about music. "My rule about music is very simple. If I like it, it's music; if I don't like it, it isn't music. That's true it isn't music to me. I would urge that attitude on anybody: If they don't like Bach, for heaven's sake Say so. I understand music, but I'm a newspaperman." ANNOUNCING FOR COP CO CUSTOMERS Put Money In Your Purse Added Comfort and Convenience In Your Home EXTRA TRADE-IN MONEY on Old Ranges rT?(r() EXTRA TRADE-IN MONEY on Old Water Heaters . A WIRE-E PLAN for lmProved Home Wirin2 For Your OLD RANGE, traded on a new, modern electric range, Reddy Kilowatt will pay $25. IN AD DITION to your favorite appliance dealer's trade-in allowance! For Your OLD WATER HEATER, traded on, a new, quick-reco very elec tric water heater, Reddy Kilowatt will pay.$20.IN ADDITION to your favorite appliance dealer's allowance! For MODERN WIRING in your kitchen, laundry, or bath, or for wiring a new electric heating system in your home, Reddy will make it possible for you to finance improvements on an easy-pay plan, through the lending agency of your choice, without down payment, collateral, or co-signers! Contracts will be; accepted'up to $250-00, with payments as low as $5-00 per month! For Detail, Visit Your Cooperating Local Appliance Dealer, Electrical Contractor or Plumber BONUS OFFERS GOOD FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY A Western Company owned and operated by Western Peoplt UVl BETTER
