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Wednesday, Oclober 2, 1957
MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Deos Smlih'g
By DOC QUIGG
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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.
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?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."
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