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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...
Last year, on his Sabbatical leave, Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, made a literary pilgrimage to the Vatican Library, where he was given every facility to use the Pope's Five-Mile Shelf of church classics...
...mike." fear that his listeners, estimated at 20 millions now, are not laughing. The Texas Co. hired him with the idea of reaching the vast hoipolloi. For a time it was worried when fan letters poured in from tycoons and the intelligentsia. Now it is satisfied that Ed Winn simply makes everybody laugh...
Professor Kirsopp Lake, who yesterday resigned from the Winn Professorship of Ecclesiastical History and severed all his connections with the Harvard Theological School, has been appointed a professor in the faculty of Arts and Sciences and will continue to give his courses in the college...
...famous authority on ecclesiastical history came to Harvard from the University of Leyden in 1913, and received in 1919 the Winn Professorship which he held up to yesterday. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and the author of numerous books on ecclesiastical history and biblical exegesis...