Word: pytchley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...