Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-04-15
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| WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
BY lemueI F. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
When Floods Subside

NEW YORK.-Two men in
l = the news this week attest
the fact that floods subside and
wars end. 1t was only a few
weeks ago that Churchill Downs
was a dismal swamp. And now
the Kentucky derby fanfare is
on again, with the purse tipped
$4,000 and the durable Colonel
Matt Vim taking bows for hav-
ing lined up again all the truly
illustrious three-year-olds in the
country, flood or no flood.
OF Man River backs away, and
there is assured a Drawer flare of
silks and trumpets than ever before,
as the pastures grow green again
in Wall street and Kentucky.
This will be Colonel WINS sixty
third Kentucky derby. He saw his
first one in 1875, won by little
red horse called Aristides. He was
a grocer's boy, watching the race
from the tailboard of his employers
cart.
Being romantic Irish lad, the
excitement never stopped boiling.
After that, he never could keep his
mind on his groceries. He has had
many run-around in the racing
business, but, at seventy-ive, he
isn't the least bit track-sore. AS pres
ident of the Kentucky Jockey club
and executive director of Churchill
Downs, he rides recurrent floods
like Noah and always finds dry land.
In 1907, the late James Butler
opened the Empire City track, but
the nabobs of racing hereabouts
refused to recognize it. Mr.. Butler
signed up Colonel Vim to run it. In
eight months it was given full recog-
milton.
When Charles Evans Hughes
squelched racing in New York state,
Colonel VIM tried his fortune in
racing and management at Juarez,
Mexico, with unhappy results. He
returned to Kentucky, where he just
naturally belongs, and now he just
about runs racing in Kentucky and
Illinois. He is president of the Amer
lean Turf association, which con-
trolls not only Churchill Downs, but
also the tracks of Chicago and Laur-
ell, Md.
The years paw at the ColonePs
robust person the way the river
paws at the track. So far, neither
has won decision. The G0dOlphin
Arab, ancestor of all the Bangtails,
was never more alive than the white
haired Colonel Winn, with his genial,
round face, up-tilted Irish nose and
bright, twinkling eyes.
Proof the War is Over.
1T IS DR.. William r. Valentiner,
L curator of the Detroit Insti-
tute of Art, who provides this
weeks reminder that the wars over.
AS one of the most authoritative and
highly respected art critics of the
country, he passes as authentic the
lost Rembrandt Juno portrait,
which arrived in New York recently.
Seventeen years ago, there was
considerable public concern as to
whether DR.. Valentiner should be
allowed to return to this country.
This writer dredged up a most in
temperate editorial on that subject
yellow with age and strangely un-
real in the world of today.
DR.. Valentiner, frock- coated and
dignified curator of decorative arts
at the Metropolitan museum, had
been in Germany when the war
started. He remained to fight for
Germany. He was an artilleryman,
twice decorated.
He wrote happily to his confreres
at the museum that his elevation
to the rank of vice-sergeant major
relieved him from currying his own
horse. He resigned from tn
museum when we entered the war.
Before coming to America, he had
attained distinction as curator at
the Hague and at the Royal mu-
seums of Berlin. He became one of
the world authorities on Rembrandt.
He contends that, of the ITS sup
posed Rembrandts in the United
States and Canada, only forty-eight
are genuine - incidentally, worth
$50 100000, as 'tirne and the river"
roll on for $50 years.
Campos the Conqueror
A MOTHER Harvard man in the
IA news-also in Jail. The incar-
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