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...responsible for making the Derby the racing classic of the American continent also has the distinction of having seen every Derby ever run. In 1875, 14-year-old Matt Winn sat in his father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf...
...Tugwell, speaking to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, gave as smooth a sales talk on behalf of the New Deal Cure-All as was ever given by an old time medicine man from the tall of a spring wagon...
...morbid were up at dawn one day last week, hurrying to the square in front of the ancient Hotel de Ville. Squads of blue-clad soldiers were already there, keeping the crowds as far as possible from an open space in the square's centre. Soon a rattling wagon drove up, loaded with red-painted timbers, ropes, boards. Trained like circus roustabouts, a crew of workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw...
...ballet-were the work of Russians: the music of Nicholas Nabokov, 31-year-old composer of Alsace and Paris; the choreography of Leonide Massine, 36-year-old master of the present Russian ballet. Only the libretto by Archibald MacLeish, the stage sets by Albert Johnson (The Band Wagon, As Thousands Cheer) and the costumes by Irene Sharaff (Eva Le Gallienne's Alice in Wonderland) were native American...
...continuation of Bring 'Em Back Alive. As a wild animal act, its realistic background gives it its chief advantage over a circus. But it makes Buck's profession seem at once too exciting and too simple. Forty-year-old son of Texas parents who ran a covered wagon station in Texas, he started his career by catching birds and snakes with a bolas (which he uses on the cassowary in Wild Cargo). Since then he has crossed the Pacific 40 times, made five trips around the world, knocked out an orangutan in a fist fight. At Singapore...