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...member of this committee was Thomas Colt, director of the Portland Art Museum. He hoped-as TIME reported-that "some patron would buy Salem's scorned Venus for Portland's museum, where...her rich beauty would be appreciated...
...soon as he read the TIME article, Carter phoned Colt offering to buy the rebuffed Venus for the same price ($18,000) that the Salem committee had agreed to pay. And he proposed to lend her to the Portland Art Museum...
Collector Carter's offer was accepted last month by the Pioneer Trust Co. of Salem, trustees of the janitor's es tate. Declared Museum Director Colt: "The perceptive journalism of a great magazine and the vision of a generous citizen combined to reaffirm my faith that great art will always call forth strong champions, who will prevail over confusion...
...Belmont Park, a big brown colt named Porterhouse, of Llangollen Farm, ran away from a field of 13 other top two-year-olds to win the Belmont Futurity, $92,875, and delayed recognition as the pick of the two-year-old division. Despite his winning ways on the same track this year, the bettors sent him off at the unaccountably long odds of 7-1, while hustling to dump their money on the Midwest favorite, Hasty Road, which finished tenth...
...Aqueduct race track, Alfred G. Vanderbilt announced that his great three-year-old colt Native Dancer, suffering from newly discovered bruises, will race no more this year...