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Medford and Jackson County
History from the fllei of The
Mall Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vaan ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 26, 1952 (Tulldly)
Dodge bridge across the
Rogue river had been com
pleted and Hie route is now
open to traffic.
A total of 534 pints of blood
166 less than the hoped-for
quota of 700 was collected
by the Bloodmobile during its
visit here.
20 YEARS AGO
Nor. 26. 1942 (Wednesday)
November 1042, precipita
tion heaviest in history of
local weather bureau for the
month; total is 7.33 inches of
rainfall.
From Arthur Pcrry'i "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
government has directed that
tails of men's shirts will be six
inches shorter henceforth. The
war gets grimmer and grim
mer as democracy starts put
ting the pressure on the axis.''
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 26. 1932 (Friday)
Jackson county tax levy to
be unchanged during coming
year despite heavy cuts in
budget because of decreases in
fees and receipts.
Medford Chamber of Com
merce invites Jacksonville to
take part in local observance
of Oregon statehood.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 26, 1922 (Saturday)
From Local and Personal
column: "The Sexton moun
tain section of the Pacific
highway is now completed and
the bugaboo of travel, the
Sexton mountain detour, is a
thing of memory only"; new
highway is 18 feet wide.
Ed Andrews, opera comed
ian and former resident of
Medford, opens in American
Light Opera company per
formance of "The Bohemian
Girl" in Portland.
50 YEARS AGO
Noy. 26, 1912 (Monday)
Fire destroys barn contain
ing! 30 horsepower 1910 Hayes
automobile owned by W. H.
Humohrcvs.
Medford man reports his
milk cow has been stolen, or
has untied herself. nneneH
two doors, moved two car
riages and climbed a fence.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or tan correct li superierj
liven or eight li ticllltnt; fin
six it good.
1. With what branch of ani
mal or plant life does an
ichthyologist deal?
2. What country In the
Western Hemisphere Is the
largest in area?
3. Grindstones are kept wet
to keep them cool, to retard
the crumbling, or to keep the
knife cool?
4. Do ordinary constant
speed electric motors use
more current when starling or
when running at top speed?
5. Can an ordinary man lift
a 6 inch cube of gold?
fl. What color results from
mixing yellow and blue?
7. Whose Idea was the
wooden horse of Troy?
8. What two rivers meet at
Pittsburgh and form another
river.
9. In what position do ball
sleep?
10. In what garden was
Jesus arrested'
Answers: 1. Fiih. 2. Braiil,
3, To keep knife cool. 4. Start'
ino. 5. Yet (150 lb..). I. Grain.
7. Ulyttti'. I. Alleghany and
Monongahala form Ohio. 9
Hinging uptidi down. 10
Gelhsimine.
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East and West
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a city whose growth is slow from 29,063 in 1950
t oa nro - 1 n ' n 1 it . -,
10 ou,uoo in lyou oy me
it nas Deen li years since uie writer visitea
his birthplace; it has been 17 years since he-left.
Northampton is a city in which change has
been slow, in which the status quo appears to
draw more weight than a changing society.
e
"yUERE have been some changes.
Business and small industry have built up
along a highway north of town ; a few residential
areas have grown in a couple suburban areas;
a few changes have been made in the downtown
area, but the major ones can be counted on the
fingers of one hand; a new wing has been added
to the hospital, and new buildings have been
added to the vocational school campus.
Some changes are worth mentioning.
A modern store has replaced a downtown
hotel; Smith college has added a new, contemporary-design
dormitory; a shopping center, sim
ilar to those of the west, occupies property where
dairy cattle once fed ; and
gogue dominates an area
DUT perhaps one of the most startling changes
was at the edge of the downtown business
district. An attractive, modern, yellow brick
church has replaced an old red brick one.
It houses the Edwards Congregational church,
named in memory of Jonathan Edwards, scholar
and theologian who started a New England re
ligious revival in 1750 while at Northampton.
The new church stands out bright among the
surrounding weathered-dull red brick buildings.
These are the few notable changes of the
past 17 years.
DETAIL stores in the downtown area (and in
the smaller communities within Northhamp
ton) are recognizable by their old fronts, and the
interior of many border on being fire hazards;
the streets are the same, many of them still bumpy
and narrow; tall two and
houses with weathered
residential streets; and
gingerbready homes, most of them well-kept,
make up the older residential sections.
Northampton is a
touch of the present and
lhe houses in which
buildings in which they
themselves. Some of them have changed; many
of them have not. Many of them prefer the status
quo, and it shows in the things they do, and what
they talk about, or don't talk about.
They talk about high taxes, about the de
plorable school situation, and the location of a
new highway. But they apparently only talk.
IT TOOK close to five years for the city fathers
to decide on a junior high school site, and the
high school from which
has not changed. Three
building which has not
than 17 years.
Iwo relatively new elementary schools were
crowded when they opened. They are built of
brick (as most public buildings in the east are),
and they have expensive frills, such as a cupola
on which a weather vane
what changes have been made in Northhamp
ton were not as impressive as the lack of change.
The visit to Northampton was rewarding. It
substantiated our belief
"westernized." We have
the faster growing, faster
Change in the West
In contrast to E.H.A.'s observations above
about the town of his birth, this writer has fre
quently visited his birthplace, Eugene, but not
so frequently that the changes are not noticeable.
When we left there 21 years ago, it was a
sleepy little western town of some 20,000 souls.
Today it is a bustling citv of more than 50,000.
Our old elementary school long ago vanished.
and its name and function
junior high school, which
ing. Our high school alma mater is now a junior
high. Iwo new high schools have been built, and
a third is under vay.
yilE downtown area boasts a striking new
4 courthouse. A new city hall is under construc
tion. The park blocks once the retreat of whit
tiers, horse shoe tossers and tale-spinners has
lost its hitching-posts, and is circled by bright
new store fronts.
Traffic, once unhurried and uncrowdeil, now
is bustling and often jammed, and confined to
one-way grids. New arterial streets criss-cross
what once were open marshes, now built over.
The hills, once the bailiwick of boys ami .22
rifles and laboriously dug caves ami rousting pits,
aie now covered with homes, many of them out
standing examples of modern architecture.
Hp IE highway, which once meandered almost
1 aimlessly through the heart of town, now
speeds by as freeway some miles away. The old
airport is now it housing subdivision, and the new
one is 10 miles to the north.
The University campus, once notable for dig
nified, vine covered buildings, now bustles with
umbrella-carrying students, many of them from
abroad, and bright new brick, concrete and glass
buildings and dormitories spread for blocks.
We, too, are "westernized" ami acclimated
to change. But E.H.A.'s observations about a
town, quiet and almost unchanged, have a ring
of nostalgia to them. E.A.
census cuuiiu
a modern Jewish Syna
of older homes.
three-story crackerbox
paint line most of the
the same large wooden,
city of the past with a
little of the future.
the people live, and the
work, reflect the people
the writer was graduated
shifts of students use. a
had an addition in more
is placed.
that we have become
become accustomed to
changing west. E.H. A.
given to what was our
now is in a new buikl
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One Of Our Citiet At Home"
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Hurrah for Flogging
To the Editor: Hurrah for
a long overdue man of cour
age, this judge from Delaware!
A good public flogging for
these beginners in crime is
the best way to make them
remember and think twice.
In this day when parents no
longer use the wood shed or
otherwise try to control their
young, someone has to take
over the task and your "bleed
ing heart" approach has only
made young folks more defi
ant of the law they know
can't touch them.
Parents take the rap, pay
the bills and the kids go scott
free, and it is time someone
brought them up short with
a good whaling.
Sadistic? I should think not!
Did you think your parents
were sadistic when you got
a well placed hand or did you
grow up ruling the roost like
youngsters of today?
In the same paper was the
report of an official badly
beaten. Who would dare to do
this if there was respect for
authority'.1
I, for one, highly recom
mend more of this kind of
law enforcement and hope it
spreads out west so it will
be safe to walk the street or
even live in your own home
without barricades.
Mrs. Ray Doran
Central Point, Ore.
P.S.: How do Medforditcs
like the way chlorine is being
put in the water against pub
lic vote? Pretty clever, but
then what has a voter got to
say?
o
Editor's note: Chlorine isn't
fluoride.
Why Fewer Deer
To the Editor: I see where
the Central Point sportsmen
are going to find out why the
deer herds are getting extinct.
Well, if the game commission
would extend a few more
hunts they could soon get 'cm
all. Why in 11 can't peo
ple hunt in the rcgulr season
instead of killing a doe in the
late hunt? And it's usually
three they kill, as the docs
arc nearly all with fawn or
fawns then.
It doesn't take a New York
attorney to figure this out. 1
for one am with Mr. G. Brown
of I'rospect. we will soon be
priced out of our rights. Mr.
li a m e Commissioner, how
about SI for a pheasant tag.
have you forgot that? Or will
it come up next season'.'
We the sportsmen should
put a stop to this (but how?).
The hunters 1 have talked to
said. well, no more hunting
for me, if we would all stick
together, and not buy a li
cense for just one season, we
would have bettor hunting
and fishing, and maybe no in
crease in tecs. Let's all stick
together.
I suppose lhe game com
mission needs more money to
dud out why a stream has to
he a certain temperature for
a fish to spawn. The poor
things years ago sure had a
hard time, wailing tor game
commission man to squeeze
lhe eggs out of them. Or do
they need more money lo put
a lew more cars clic king on
the highways, only four cars
and two pickups south of
Diamond lake last year. Why
couldn't two men do the same
thing" Oh yes. they have to
spend a tew thousand emitt
ing the deer, whtcn is really
necessary. Why can't they
leave the license as it is' Have
a season of one riccr starting
and shipping all the same
j tunc '
Nope we g,t to have a few
late seasons to kill more does
and figure out why the herds
are k'Ottmg smaller
I Name on file)
Gold Hill, Ore.
Slow Learners
To the Editor: That a pu
pil's low learning capacity is
a dcterming factor in a
school's scholastic standing is
a must in its study. But it
surely is not a determining
equation of any 100 per cent.
For the great Naturalist Dar
win was a teacher's despair
more often than a joy. Ever
a doubter of book theorizing,
he found his dependables in
nature's often obscure laws.
Denounced though he was,
especially by the clergy, his
ever ailing remains rest now
with England's greatest of
greats in old Westminister
abbey.
Thomas Edison and plant
wizard Burbank were slow
learners lo the point of being
despaired of. Blue-eyed Dr.
Carver was much the same,
who was most cmbarassed
when found carrying home a
gunny-sack of horse drop
pings. But from those humble
cast-offs, he evolved one of
our artist's most prized
brown-amber pigments.
So. we must not discount
the slow-learner too drastical
ly, for the guideposts of his
tory warn that it is not the
whiz-kids who lead us to our
great goal, happiness. It is
much more often the slow en
during plodder who clears
away the debris of loose-think
ing to disclose sure-footing to
our cherished objectives. So
like the hunter's cold-trailer,
muzzle down lo the quarry's
scent on ground, rock and
bush, often to overtake the
speedy black specked Walk
ers or such like in confused
frustrated yelping and get
them back on the trail.
All of which warns us to
depend more on old proven
dependables like the test of a
puddin' is, er, on the vest,
that even the dlind, deaf and
dumb can know.
My "puddin' on the vest"
is our National Educatiomil
Association's Ranking of the
States, Research Report 1962
Rl, thai with Congressman
Durno's prodding was finally
sent me. As has been reported
here, it gives positive evidence
that our Northwest schools do
lead the rest of the nation in
scholastic standing. Seems like
lhe why of this could and
should be a part in the wealth
of educational news so prom
inent in the press of laic.
Could it be that the NEA Re
port referred to is not avail
able in our libraries or the
reference files of the MT? If
there's no public appreciation
of our school standings, how
can there be appreciation of
a -.. S V ..- I
II A
"From now on wi re doing abstract designs on stamps
it I safer. Like some modern paintings, it won't make
any difference if they're printed upside down or
not . . . I"
Mt.Ur'OHD MAIL 'iniouiic. Mt-DrOHD, OREGON
Foreign News: Nuclear Test Ban Pact
Sought by
Tl ttflf I T t life AaT .
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foriign Niws Analyst
Notes from the foreign
news cable:
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The United States and Brit
ain are going to spare no ef
fort to get a nuclear test ban
treaty before
Christmas at
the Disarma
ment Confer
ence recon
vening In Ge
n e v a today.
But the still
unres o 1 v e d
dispute over
on-site inspec-
r
L-X4!
Newsom tion of s u s
pected underground tests still
Drum mo nd Reports
(Walter Lippmann is in Europe. Roicoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (t) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
NEEDED-BERLIN
SUPREME COMMANDER
Berlin - The danger to West
Berlin is not past.
It will soon be greater than
ever if two things are not
done:
1- The buildup of Western
conventional forces by the
European countries - princi
pally France, Britain, and 11-aly-which
have fallen far be
hind their NATO commit
ments. 2- The appointment of a su
preme commander of the Al
lied forces in Berlin lo permit
prompt decisionmaking in or
der to deal with the Soviet
"salami tactics" of eating
away at Western rights in
ways which in past months
have brought futile protests,
not firm counter-action.
That road-the road of hard
words and soft action-leads
to the steady decay of West
ern rights and the loss of Ber
lin itself.
The danger today is that in
light of Cuba we are better
prepared to defend Berlin
from the attack most likely to
occur-the continued Soviet el
bowing and harassing of West
ern rights against which we
are either too slow or too di
vided lo reply.
That is the danger and if
the divided Allied councils in
Berlin are not soon united, we
face the prospect of yielding
by default what we are
pledged to preserve.
TT CAN be done.
Obviously, the best way
to do it is for Britain, France,
and the United States to agree
on a supreme commander of
the Allied forces here with
adequate authority to act.
The best candidate for the
job is Gen. Lucius Clay, who
has earned the confidence of
the Allies, the trust of the Ber-
liners, and the respect of the
Soviets. He could do it. His
presence and his authority
would even be a deterrent to
Soviet harassment.
The failure to concert Al
lied forces in the three sectors
of West Berlin is the most in
viting weakness in the Allied
position here today. Military
decision-making by committee
means dilatory decision-mak
ing. Such delay almost always
means abandoning any course
of action. It means inaction by
default because, unless the
Wesl can reply instantly to
Soviet intrusion, then the ac
tion is cither too late or doub
ly dangerous and doubly dif
ficult. Remember the opportunity
we lost lo use the right ol
Western access to East Berlin
when we allowed an East Ger
man youth, shot by the East
Zone police attempting to es
cape over the wall, to lie for
hours bleeding to death a few
vards from the sector line. A
our worth as a nation? We
do seem to appreciate our
football winnings to the point
of rioting.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2. Box 200F
Central Point. Ore.
POST OFFICE
DEPARTMENT
STAMP DESIGN
DIVISION
Christmas; Doubts
t a I . I ..
has to be cleared up. And. at
the present time, this looks
like the main barrier to any
agreement, unless one or the
other side makes a major con
cession. The United States is cool lo
the Russian idea of "black
boxes" whicn would contain
instruments and be planted in
each country to monitor sus
pected blasts and then be
examined later by neutral
scientists. The idea of the
"black box" is likely to be
presented shortly as a formal
proposal by the Russians. The
instruments are not foolproof
and easily could be tampered
with, and, furthermore, West
ern observers point out that
British ambulance helplessly
stood by, hesitant and, in the
end, acquiescent in this denial
of the Western right of access
even on such an errand of
mercy.
TT CAN be said with knowl-
edge thrt a Soviet offi
cial has admitted that, if a
U. S. ambulance accompanied
by U. S. force had asserted the
right of access, the East Zone
police were not authorized to
resist.
The American government
has already informed the city
of Berlin that if there is a So
viet attack on its security, we
will defend it-unilatcrally, if
necessary. But Berlin can be
lost by failing to reply
promptly to the other kind of
attack-the "salami"-style ero
sion of Western rights.
I suggest that if we cannot
get agreement for the appoint
ment of a supreme Allied com
mander in Berlin, we must act
unilaterally against "salami"
attacks or we will end up by
losing the war without fight
ing the battle.
And for the defense of Ber-lin-to
which all NATO is com
mitted - NATO conventional
forces urgently need to be
brought up to the agreed
levels. The failure to do so not
only endangers Berlin but
risks a nuclear war in Europe,
because NATO does not have
the conventional forces to
counter a major conventional
attack anywhere on its bor
ders. In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
On the home front, the
death toll on highways dur
ing the 30-hour Thanksgiving
holiday period that started at
6 p.m. on Wednesday and end
ed at midnight on Thursay
reached a total of 182 - aver
aging our at six deaths per
hour.
The dispatches tell us that
California "led the carnage"
with 19 deaths, followed by
Texas with 16, and in third
place New York with 12.
OES that mean that Cali-
u to
rnia drivers are MOST
reckless, with Texas drivers
next in order and New York
drivers in third place from
the standpoint of reckless dis
regard of life and limb?
Not necessarily, as you may
note from the following fig
ures showing number of cars
licensed in the three states:
California 7,799,051 cars
Texas 4.456.662 cars
New York 5.067.012 cars
1M1ESE three states lead all
the rest of the states in
number of cars, so it is logical
that they should lead the
roster of lhe stales in number
of people killed on the high
ways during the holiday per
iod. The lesson seems to be that
the more cars the more fatal
accidents. This conclusion ap
pears to be challenged by the
fact that this year Texas, with
fewer registered cars than
New York, falls into second
place in number of fatalities.
That, however, is accounted
for by the fact that during the
Thanksgiving holiday this
year, the nation's worst crash
occurred in Texas, when five
persons were killed in a
HEAD-ON collision.
That upset the normal aver
age Always - in Texas, or in
California, or in New York -or
anywhere else. DEATH
LURKS ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE CENTER LINE.
QUESTION
ViH
ow can we cut dow n the
toll of death on our highways?
0
is
BETTER DRIVING
Another answer is bv pro
viding MORE HIGHWAY
POLICE.
I think we must all agree
that WHEN A COP IS IN
SIGHT, we drive more care
fully - far more carefully
When people drive more care
fully, there are fewer accidents.
they are no substitute for
first - hand inspection. But
they expect the American and
British negotiators to listen
to the Russian proposal with
care to see if it can be amend
ed to meet Western desires.
Yellow Peril
Perhaps the most startling
statement made by Red Chi
nese leader Chou En-lai at a
banquet he hosted in Peking
recently for a visiting group
of Japanese Conservative
party politicians was a re
mark about the venerable
Western fear of a "yellow
peril" - that is, the grouping
of all non - white peoples
against the whites. A mem
ber of the mission said the
essence of Chou's remarks
was that the Japanese and
Chinese should consider them
selves "brothers" and think in
Washington Report
By William
(ci United Feature Syndicate
CASTRO'S HELPFULNESS
Washington - There are the
soundest grounds to hope that
Fidel Castro goes right on re-
, fusing to per
mit United Na
tions verifica
tion of the re
moval of a 1 1
types of Sovi-
jSjf et of fen s i v e
weapons from
Cuba.
The plain
fact is that the
longer his ob
stinacy endures the better off
the United States will be. For
in the absence of Castro's as
sent to this U. S.-verification
part of the bargain struck be
tween President Kennedy and
Nikita Khrushchev, the Unit
ed States will be able to con
tinue, without valid criticism
from anyone, its own highly
efficient surveillance of any
and all weapons systems in
Cuba.
pEw
tra
ade this kind of surveil-
lance-which is intense and
constant and will so remain so
long as Castro continues to
paint himself into his own
corner-for anything the U.N.
itself could possibly provide,
or one illustration, the storied
U-2 reconnaissance plane,
which has been notably able
to penetrate even the fast
nesses of the Soviet Union, has
not found Cuba much of a
problem-any way one looks
at it.
Indeed, some here have
long felt that the weakest link
in the whole chain of Ameri
can victory over Khrushchev
in this matter has lain in the
very fact that the Kennedy
Khrushchev arrangement pro
vided for U.N. inspection as
the principal asurance to us
that the missiles and the like
were really going to be taken
out-and kept out-of Cuba.
This does not imply some
dark conspiracy within the
U.N. to give only a lick and a
promise lo the job of inspect
ing and verifying in Cuba.
Nor does it impute to the U.N.
any desire to push the thing
under the rug.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
e field Enterprises. Inc.
MEMORY
Speaking of those "How
To'' books, as I was the other
day. a publisher recently sent
me a copy of a
rUaeSfw new book call-
,fa "..! jv J cd "How to
Improve Your
- H Memory in
i ' 'in n a v ' nr
. guilt:,,
J what it was
roller! I
Harris wouldn't mind
so much if my memory were
merely bad. But it is trivial,
irrelevant and mischievous. 1
store up odd scraps of literary
information, d i s c o n t i n ucd
phone numbers, names of
mythological creatures, coup
lets of bad verse - but can't
remember three items on a
shopping list or the address
of a doctor I have to sec to
morrow. The best chess players (like
the best bridge players) are
endowed with spectacular
memories. It was no feat for
a man like Alekhinc to piny
a dozen games simultaneously
j while blindfolded; and the top
entice masters can rccon-
struct all four hands of Board
28 which they played in a
tournament seven years ago.
'
Pillsbury. the American
chest champion for many
years, was once subjected to
an amaiing memory test by
two professors at Lehigh
university. They read to
him a list of 30 words,
which he had to repeat Im
i mediately afterwards. Here
Expressed
long . range terms of uniting
against the "whites" because
the "whites" will never give
up their efforts to keep down
the "yellows" they fear. In
effect, what Chou was propos
ing was a sort of greater East
Asia coprosperity sphere
headed by Red China, with
Russia clearly lumped with
the "whites" of the West.
Nationalist Commando Raids
Sources in Tokyo in a po
sition to know say stepped-up
Nationalist Chinese comman
do raids against the Commu
nist - controlled China main
land can be expected soon. A3
in the past, such raids will
not be publicized. But they
will be staged to give tha
Peking regime as much trou
ble as possible through tha
use of guerrilla tactics - .i
favorite of the Reds them
selves. S. White
THE basic fact nevertheless
remains that this part of
the bargain with the Soviet
Union tended to leave vital na
tional security largely in tha
hands of an international body
which, whatever its intentions,
has had very little experience
in the kind of hard, acute sur
veillance that clearly is neces
sary here.
To put the point plainly,
what American would prefer
U.N. assurances here to tha
assurances provided by our
own armed services and relat
ed intelligence agencies oper
ating under their own surveil
lance arrangements?
And if Castro has stepped
on his own feet in the matter
of inspection and verification,
he has in other ways uninten
tionally served our interests.
It will be recalled that when
Khrushchev agreed to remove
all offensive weapons from
Cuba we on our side agreed
that "once adequate arrange
ments for verification had
been established we would re
move our naval quarantine
and give asuranccs against an
invasion of Cuba."
m
rpHE quoted passage, from
President Kennedy's pre
thanksgiving press conference
has great significance. For
though we have now lifted
the naval quarantine, on re
ceipt of Russian promises to
withdraw Soviet bombers as
well as misiles, we have not
yet "given assurances against
an invasion of Cuba."
This capital point should
not for a moment be over-looked-even
though it is the
kind of point about which this
government rightly follows a
suggestion once made by Win
ston Churchill in a wartime
crisis: "Think of it always,
speak of it never."
In short, Castro has lost his
Soviet missiles, is losing his
Soviet bombers, has pointless
ly annoyed his Soviet masters,
and has, thus far, managed to
free us even from our condi
tional promise not to invada
him. If he ever was considered
by any considerably number
of Latin Americans to be the
wave of the future, there has
been a remarkable lapse ol
tenses. His future is now
strictly in the past.
J. Harris
is the lormidable list:
Aniiphlogiitine, perios
teum, lakadiastese, p 1 a i
mon, ambrosia, Threlkeld.
streptococcus, staphylo coc
cus. Plasmodium, Mississip
pi, Freiheit, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, athletics, war,
Etchenberg, American, Rus
sian, philosophy, Piet Pol
gelter'i Rost, Salamagundi.
Oomisillecootsi. Bangm a m
vale, Schlechtar's Nek,
M a n s i n y ama. theosophy.
catechism, and Madjesooma
lops. Pills bury promptly re
peated the wordi in the or
der given - and then gave
them in the reverse orderl
He also repeated them flaw
lessly the next day.
Symphony conductors are
another group who seem to
have special photographic
equipment imbedded in their
cortex. Once, when Toscanini
was directing at La Scala. a
young and untalentcd com
poser submitted the minu
script of an opera which Tos
canini rejected.
Many years later, the com-
poser met Toscanini in New
,;ork and a.-ked the maestro
i whv he had rejected the
opera "I didn't like it." said
Toscanini. The composed in
sinuated that the conductor
hadn't even read the score. "I
remember it perfectly.'' Tos
canini replied. "It s no good."
And he sat down at the
piano and played several pas
sages from the opera he had
rejected a dozen years ago.
Now what in the world did t
do w ith that shopping list?
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