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Last week, at Chicago's Washington Park for the 40th running of the American Derby, Hill Prince made another bid for the title. Although Middleground was not among the nine horses which went to the barrier, the field was a strong one, including William Goetz's flashy, California-bred Your Host and Calumet Farm's entry of Theory and All Blue...
...simple logic was based on the facts that 1) only one California horse, Morvich in 1922, had ever won the Kentucky Derby, and 2) Your Host had never run against the best of the three-year-old crop. Last week at Kentucky's Keeneland Track, Movieman-Owner William Goetz and his Louis B. Mayer-bred colt put on an impressive show...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
After reading the report, Expert de la Faille issued a passionate defense of the picture, which he considers not just a Van Gogh but one of the master's "great works." And Dealer Reeves Lewenthal, who discovered the picture and sold it to Goetz last year, offered to refund its purchase price, reputed to be more than $50,000. Owner Goetz, who still liked the picture, had not yet made up his mind about keeping...
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Dorothy McConnel Mayo, and two daughters, Mrs. Walter Goetz and Mrs. Guy Vincent, all of England...