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U.S. POSTAGE BULK RATE PERMIT NO. 119 SALEM, OH 44460 'f/ol 6, :J{o. 41 'Tuesday, !Jv[arcfi 18, 1997 Section of 'Ifie . <;a[em News Hollywoo love the uesen er d r1nII the·1920s Car dominated Indy 500 By Steve Herman doozy." AP Sports Writer Eddie Rickenbacker, later a World War I ace pilot and T WAS A FAVORITE OF owner of the Speedway before I Hollywood celebrities in Hulman, was 10th in one of the 1920s and '30s. It spawned two Duesenberg entries in a familiar catch-phrase still 1914. The company or other heard . today, and for a brief teams usi..ng Duesenbergs _had period in racing history, it at least one car ir1 the 500 each dominated the Indianapolis race after that through 1935, 500. with second-place finishes in Now Duesenberg, the maker 1916, 1921, 1922 and 1931. of one of America's first luxury The 1927 Duesenberg owned by August Duesenberg is prominently displayed in front of all cars, plans to return to the The first cars powered by the winners of the Indianapolis 500 Wednesday. The car builders, Fred and August Duesen Speedway with a race team for supercharged engines in the berg, gained fame through racing at the Speedway in the 1920s and 1930s. the first time in more than 60 Indy 500 were Duesenbergs years. driven by L.L. Corum, Joe Boy "Racing is my family's herit er and Pete DePaolo in the 1924 last time a Duesenberg chassis age," said Keith Duesenberg, race: · Boyer's car, with relief ran in ·the race, I'm sure." whose family came from Ger driver Thane Houser at the After Fred's death, he said, many and first had cars in the wheet crashed on the 177th Augie retired from racing and 500 in 1914. "We'll introduce a lap, giving Boyer an 18th-place lived in Camby, Ind., until his new generation to what it finish. death in 1955_ The company means to be 'a real Duesie."' Boyer had relieved Corum continued making passenger Duesenberg plans to begin on the 109th lap and went on cars until 1937, when it was racing at the 1998 Indy Racing to take the checkered flag, mak acquired by Auburn-Cord. Col League opener at Walt Disney ing the Duesenberg teammates lectors of vintage cars still Wor:ld in Orlando, Fla., in Janu the first of just two sets of Indy gather each Labor Day ary, and enter the Indianapolis co-winners. The next year, weekend for the Auburn-Cord 500 that May. DePaolo won the race in a Duesenberg Festival in Auburn, The cars will carry the Duesenberg, and teammate Phil Ind. Duesenberg name but there are .Shafer was third. "In 1966, there was a com no plans to create a 11ew chassis DePaolo was fifth in 1926, pany that was going to build or engine for the circuit. and George Souders gave Duesenbergs- They had a pro "We are here to stay ... and Duesenberg another victory in totype, but that was about it/' 1 win," said Duesenberg, whose . 1927. The last car entered by Davidson said_ great-grandfather, Henry, was the family finished 37th with Keith Duesenberg said the the older brother of Racing Ira Hall -as driver in 1933. The new race team, which will be Hall of Fame car builders Fred entrant was listed as Denny based in Englewood, Colo., has and August Duesenberg. Duesenberg, the teen-age son spoken to several drivers but has not completed a deal. And_ The Duesenbergs set up shop of Fred Duesenb~rg, who was in an Indianapolis factory and killed in an auto accident the although the family name will began turning out passenger previous year. be represented with the cars driven by such celebrities "The Duesenbergs had split Duesenberg Racing team, the as Clark Gable, James Cagney, up between 1929 and 1930," - only cars being used by the This 1925 file photo shows Indianapolis 500 mile race winner Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo ;md said racing historian Donald sanctioning IRL are the G Force Pete DePaolo in his Duesenberg race car follolving the May and Dallara chassis with Old May West. A young Tony Hul Davidson. "In 1930, '31 and '32, 30 race. The Duesenberg la~t won in 1927. Associated Press man, a wealthy businessman Fred and Augie ran separate smobile Aurora and Nissan photo · sportsman who later bought teams_ Infiniti engines. the Speedway, drove a Duesen "The last Duesenberg was Duesenberg said he has not berg, too. - driven by Freddie .Winnai in decided which cars to use. of The Marment Group, berg name shares a place Even the car's name evoked 1935, but that was a private "Duesenberg Racing is sb Duesenberg' s marketing rep alongside Harley Davidson and a sen$e of elegance and popu entry that wasn't owned by the much more than a race team," resentative. "It's the rebirth of the New York Yankees in terms larized the slang phrase, "It's a brothers_ That would be the said Roger Marment; president an American icon. The Duesen- of the images it co11jures up." 'YesteTl{ears Tuesday, Marek 18 1997 By Lois Firestone · getting a taste ot it tor a brief HE FEBRUARY-MARCH time as a student in Manhattan. issue of American Herit "One of the supremely happy ag = . devotes nine pages to. moments of my whole life," he Cfarles Burchfield, the Salem said, was when I stood in the ar :ist whose watercolors of woods and listened to the wind nc :ure and city life are hanging roaring in the tree tops. After on the walls of private galleries New York it seemed to me the and public museums through most wonderful music I ever om the country. heard." Author Stephen May believes · The author says the music that the Burchfield exhibition at didn't leave him. In the next the Columbus Museum of Art year, he produced some 200 in the spring "may well paintings, all of them express reuieve Burchfield from the ing moods and visualizing periphery of mid-twentieth sounds. That year, the year he "Baseball in Old Chicago, ce:irury American art and place was 24, he said later in life, was part of a Work Proj eds hica firmly in its front ranks." "his golden year." Administration project rv'Iay dwells at length on Bur A strong influence on the chfield' s love of nature, culti way he perceived the scenes he va;:ed when he was a child depicted was author Sherwood gr::>wing up in Salem. He was Anderson, in his novels about foc:,r when his penniless mother life in small rnidwestern towns, · brcught her six youngsters to "Winesburg Ohio" and "Hello Sa~em, and, fascinated with Towns!" He'd always seen America's Steakhouse poJiwogs, minnows and insec buildings as having personali ts, he spent as much time as ties and moods, and Ander A GOOD possible hiking in woods and son's writings confirmed it for spending hours around streams him. He believed that houses IDEA and fields. · have faces, and their windows He started drawing the insec are their eyes. Some smile, Locally-Owned ts and wildflowers at an early others frown, and all hold hid and age, and became more accom den secrets, some of them sad plished as he grew to adult but most of them exciting. Operated hood. "There is nothing in His life in Salem was nearing 2488 E. State St nature that will ever fail to an end when he lost his job at Saiem, OH 44460 interest me," he wrote in the the Mullins plant in Salem and "Years of Dust," a photolithograph done in 1937 by Ben journal he began keeping while took a job as a farmhand. Shahn is part of an exhibit on New Deal era art, "A New 332-0601 a Salem High School student. He fell in love with the far Deal for the Arts" to go on display at Washington's National Eventually nature became his mer's daughter, Bertha Ken Archives March 28. Like millions of others, America's artists refuge and a deeply religious reich, and they married in 1922. stood in bread lines during the Great Depresssion. Franklin What a experience. At 29, Burchfield found a job as Delano Roosevelt's New Deal came to the rescue, with pain The artist roamed the Ohio a wallpaper designer in Buffa ters gracing post office walls with murals. Associated Press . Pharmacy River valley in the 1900~ lo, and the couple moved to a . sketching his beloved nature - nearby village, Gardenville. pleted, back then, 'and enlarged Arbaugh·Pearce Was Meani To Be! its smell, its feel and its sounds They raised their five children upon them: Thus were pro- - &"1d the stark somber streets, in the home they bought as a ducecf, May says, "the monu- G eerti~efl houses and factories. and their young couple, and remained merttal visionary pictures of his r Funeral "faces." there, living a simple life, until final years." Home Although the industrial sec Burchfield's death in 1966. His Eight Burchfield drawings tion of Buffalo eventually painting studio was at the back are scattered throughout the RAY J. GREENISEN 332-4401 attracted him as an artist, Bur of the home. American Heritage story, OWNER chfield hated life in a big city, Burchfield· was 50 when he detailing Burchfield' s career. PERSONAL RECORDS found a way to go back to his. One of them, "Song of the Tele & PLANNING BOOK youth and what May describes graph," was started in 1917 and Because your last wishes as the "rapturous, headlong finally finished in 1952.