Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exodus from the Town started early. Epsom, in Surrey, is not far from London. Rolls Royces and big red buses carts charabancs, here and there a tallyho, moved like gastropoda along the road. Airplanes with radio telephones circled over the procession, tried to direct traffic. On the downs squatted gypsies although they were not supposed to be there. For a shilling they sold pieces of paper with the name of the winner written thereon. Bookies with checked vests ran around the stand which towers at the end of the famed horseshoe shaped track Gentlemen with grey toppers peered through binoculars...
Among last week's winners were Nottingham Cricketer Julian Cahn who won £62,000 ($300,000) in the London Stock Exchange Sweepstakes, Widow Kathleen McGrath of Dublin who won £25,000 in the Baltic Sweep, Clerk Butler of the Amalgamated Motors Ltd., Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa who had a Calcutta Sweepstakes ticket but was reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity...
Died. Sir Cecil Burney, Bart., 71, of London, Admiral of the British Fleet, second in command at the famed Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), in London. His son, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney. designer of Airship R-100, succeeds to the baronetcy...
...been a headliner in vaudeville since 1910. She sang at Reisenvveber's in Manhattan, where a dining room was called The Sophie Tucker Room. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York made friends with her when she sang at the Kit Kat Club in London...
Mario G. Menocal, '88, onetime (1913-21) President of Cuba. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, '01, Chinese Ambassador to London...