Word: welshed
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...chase no longer has an easily identifiable horsy set. Distinguished old blueblooded hunting associations like the Quorn, which was organized 250 years ago, still flourish. But the 200 hunts in the British Isles today include such proletarian pacesetters as the Banwen Miners, a club formed in 1963 by Welsh coal diggers. While the miners may not all wear the scarlet coat and velvet cap, they bound after the fox with abandon. The Duchess of Beaufort, who rode with them one Saturday, graciously paid the supreme compliment of pronouncing the pace "grueling...
...days the rain had been falling, soaking the bleak Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfan and the 800-ft. slag heap towering above it like a black, oozing Everest. Then one morning last week, David John Evans, a maintenance man with a local colliery, climbed to the top of the waste heap to look into reports that the gigantic mass was moving. With a shock, Evans discovered that it was. "Suddenly I saw the heap shifting," he recalled later. "The movement was like thunder. I could hear trees on each side being crushed to matchwood...
Potential Fare. Thanks to Franey, the menu at any orange-topped Howard Johnson restaurant around the U.S. now includes Welsh rabbit, chicken stroganoff, veal scallopini, lamb curry and seafood thermidor. "We're upgrading gradually," says Franey. "You have to keep the average American in mind. But maybe some day we're going to serve caviar at Howard Johnson...
...knows how many millions of Potter books have circled the world, but there are Peter Rabbits in many languages from Latin to Welsh, and the book still sells 40,000 copies annually in the U.S. Now, to mark the centenary of the author's birth, her English publishers have issued the massive private Journal that Beatrix kept from 1881, when she was 15, until...
...conservative partnership, Samuel relied heavily on its money to make money, stuck to gilt-edged investments. Philip Hill, whose directors held their salaried jobs by right of talent alone, was brash, inventive and daring. With Philip Hill's top man, a rugged ex-lieutenant colonel of the Welsh Guards named Kenneth Alexander Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with deals that offended the traditional can ons of the Samuel group, and often did so without telling them. Managing a takeover of Selfridge's, the London department store...