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...leather gallop over good country." Droves of fans pay no admission, trail the hounds on foot, and even in cars and on motorcycles. Of an estimated 200,000 fox-hunting rooters, many are organized into "supporters' associations," such as the 7,000-member club affiliated with the Pytchley Hunt. "They would never have been tolerated before the war," said one hunt master. At a recent meet in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire counties, some 2,500 cars clogged the vicinity. At another chase, the parking attendant's car ran over and killed the fox before the hounds even caught...
Night Riders. How to explain the craze? One old hand, Major G. N. Loraine-Smith of the Pytchley Hunt, says that it "has something to do with the mechanical age creating a longing to get back to something near the earth." He adds: "We even have factory workers hiring ponies and riding out without sleep after working a night shift." But one vocal segment of the British population objects to this form of outdoor recreation...
...Britain's elite Pytchley Hunt, a horsy chap once superciliously told Gulbenkian that he had never before seen an orchid worn in the field. Gulbenkian's amiable squelch: "My dear sir, I expect this is the first time you have seen an Armenian out with the Pytchley!" *Bugle-voiced Comedienne Hutton "retired" forever a year ago, has since launched two comebacks...
...small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties. For one party, V.E. reportedly imported 300 guests from the U.S., paying their fares both ways. For such didos he won the somewhat dubious title of "The King of Glory." He became master of the exquisitely manicured Woodland Pytchley Hounds, fox-hunted with the Prince of Wales and the present King George, consorted with the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin (see cut). (At the end of his English period he was also divorced from his wife, who married a mutual friend, then divorced him to remarry Emanuel...
Victor Emanuel met Loewenstein in England, where he has spent many a season steeplechasing and riding to hounds. (He was once Master of the Woodland Pytchley hounds.) Between times he has thinned his hair, widened his girth by syndicate operations in a swivel chair. Still president of Standard Power & Light, he entered what he calls "the Aviation Corp. situation" in 1937. Last fall he strengthened his hold by a typical maneuver...