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Anniversary. Alvin Schmidt, Swiss manufacturing tycoon, and Frau Schmidt; their silver wedding. Celebration: a 9 hr. 20 min. joyride with 34 guests over the Alps from Basle in the Graf Zeppelin, chartered...
...from the Fatherland, the long silver cigar radioed down a question: "Where is the King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops...
...Wembley the Sovereign was doing his royal best to seem as interested in the Arsenal-Huddersfield soccer match for the "English Cup'' as were most of the excited spectators. When the Graf nosed down and dipped her flag in salute to royalty there were angry cries of "Get out of the light!" and a peppery person was heard to storm: "How did those Germans know the King was here! Spies! Spies every one of them...
...Graf's commander the jeers sounded like cheers and he hung about for some time, flattered. At last the silver cigar slipped over to Cardington airship station, picked up her Senior Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener who had been visiting in the U. S. and had voyaged to England by boat (TIME, April...
...arsenal football team of London: a 2-0 match with Huddersfield Town at Wembley Stadium, watched by King George, the Duke of York, 100,000 British subjects, and the personnel of the Graf Zeppelin...