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...What Queen Mary and so many other visitors admired last week was the new National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, the biggest collection of sporting art in the world. The collection, half a million pounds' worth of paintings and prints, and the ?400,000 mansion (renamed Hutchinson House) which housed them had been presented to the British nation. The bestowal had been made, as the gallery's catalogue said, by "Mr. Walter Hutchinson, the famous master-publisher, master-printer and sportsman, who has overcome all difficulties, and now stands before the public as a princely benefactor...
There was no doubt about the "master-publisher" part: Hutchinson's publishing and printing firms put out about 10 million books a year-from Calcium Superphosphate and Compound Fertilizers, by P. Parrish, to The Gamester, by Rafael Sabatini-and have brought him a fortune exceeding ?4,000,000. And there was no doubt that he had overcome plenty of difficulties-in person. For five years he had haunted the auctions, picked every painting and print himself, without a moment's doubt of his judgment. He knew what he wanted: "But of course! I own horses; I know what...
...Times, remarking that "nobody would wish to look several hundred gift horses in the mouth," complained that the pictures were not well hung. In fact, they were slapped up (at Hutchinson's direction) pretty much like the pictures in an ex-prizefighter's restaurant: you couldn't see the walls for them...
...Author Hutchinson has stirred away so bravely that Elephant and Castle, his character-caravan of London between the wars, is currently being compared by blurb artists to the novels of Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray. He has cooked so many people into his plot (over 100 in all) that he has had to include an explanatory list of them. His dialogues range from the chirpings of Armorel's ultra-refined relations ("Cousin Freddie, don't you think it's awful for Mums, seeing the last little chick fluttering away from the nest?") to the Anglo-Genoese babblings...
...resolutions that often raise the hackles of more liberal businessmen. It contented itself with a mild request that the U.S. budget be held to a $37 billion ceiling, and a plea for a "readjusting" of income taxes. It listened politely to the demand, by Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, for a return to the gold standard, but gently pigeonholed...