Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Betty Nuthall, 25, buxom English tennist, U. S. woman champion in 1930; and David Alexander Barclay, 34, secretary of British Cellophane Ltd.; in London...
Married- Sam Parks Jr., 27, 1935 National Open golf champion; and Jean Davison, of Pittsburgh; in Pittsburgh...
Married- Aldo Nadi, 37, of Leghorn, Italy, world's fencing champion; and Rosemary Wallace, onetime Follies girl; in Greenwich, Conn...
Died, Mrs. Jessie B. Marble, 59, mother of Alice Marble, champion U. S. woman tennist; of heart disease; in San Francisco...
Died. Dame Fanny Lucy Radmall Houston, eccentric widow of Shipowner Sir Robert Patterson Houston, reputedly England's richest woman ($25,000,000); of heart disease; at Byron Cottage, Hampstead, England. A champion of British supremacy, in 1931 she gave $500,000 to enable Britain to win the last Schneider Cup Trophy air races, financed the 1933 flight over Mt. Everest, twice offered to donate $1,000,000 to strengthen the British Army & Navy...