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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sir Walter Gilbey, 85, rollicking British distiller and amateur horseman, famed for his loud check suits, curly-brimmed hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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