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Lieut. Colonel Harry M. Llewellyn, C.B.E., looks like Alec Guinness, talks like a Noel Coward character and rides a horse as well as Sir Gordon Richards, England's beknighted jockey. In fact, Llewellyn, an old steeplechaser, placed second in England's 1936 Grand National, the annual 4½mile race over the toughest jumping course in the world. At Madison Square Garden last week, over a more sedate series of jumps, Llewellyn and his mount, a handsome, strapping (17 hands)' bay gelding named Foxhunter, were star attractions at the National Horse Show...
...year career at the hedges and fences, Foxhunter has won more than 90 blue ribbons in international-jumping competitions, captured Britain's George V Cup three times, and placed twice in the Olympic games, a bronze (third) in 1948, a gold (first) in 1952. Foxhunter is, as Llewellyn lovingly calls him, "a great athlete...
...dairymen and Agriculture Department experts to study the whole problem. Unless they can find a real remedy, the dairy industry will continue to lean on the federal Government, and the U.S. taxpayer will still have to buy butter and watch it turn rancid in Government ware houses. Said Llewellyn Watts Jr., president of the New York Mercantile Exchange: "It's beginning to look like the dairy farmer stands a good chance of just about ceasing to do business with the consumer...
Hard Knocks. Gwilym (Welsh for William) Price has been shaped by hard work and ambition. The shaping began in the hard-scrabbling mine and mill town of Cannonsburg, Pa., where his father, Welsh-born John Llewellyn Price, worked as a roller in a tin mill when he wasn't striking for the old Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. When the men were out, the cupboard was bare, and Bill Price early began piecing out the family income by running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill...
...last year, since the 1951 Olympic trials, Steinkraus has concentrated entirely on riding. He paced the U.S. team to third place in the Olympics, later shared the top title with England's Lieut. Colonel Harry Llewellyn at the Dublin Horse Show. The intense training finally paid off last week at the National. This week, with three events still to go, young Billy and his old campaigner ("the finest horse I ever rode") were just one victory shy of General Mariles' alltime National record of five individual triumphs...