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...Newcastle United, Britain's Football Association Challenge Cup, over Arsenal, io; in London. Some 100,000, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill, jammed Wembley Stadium for Britain's World Series final...
...elder brother gaily globetrotted, Bertie conscientiously studied manufacturing processes and workers' hours and wages (he was president of the Industrial Welfare Society). He was called "The Industrial Prince." His still-persistent stammer made public speaking a wearisome chore, yet on one occasion, while rehearsing a speech at Wembley, he endeared himself to a crowd of startled workmen by stammering into a microphone, "This d-d-damn thing won't work," just as it started working. He played a good game of left-handed tennis, shot golf in the 80s, liked to hunt, and was content...
...tartaned, tam-o'-shantered Scots who had descended on London for the annual England v. Scotland football match at Wembley gathered outside the abbey, but made no effort to snatch the prize. To a crowd of 600 in Trafalgar Square, indefatigable Nationalist Wendy Wood, leader of the Scottish Patriots' Association, cried, "The Stone belongs to Scotland; we shall get it back." But most Britons, English and Scots alike, seemed to feel that the joke had gone on quite long enough...
...Scottish soccer team, over England, 3-2, before 100,000 partisan fans in London's Wembley Stadium...
...Wichita, Kans., Babe Didrickson Zaharias, her second Women's National Open Golf Championship, by a nine-stroke edge over second-place Betsy Rawis. ¶ In London, California's Pancho Gonzales, the singles championship of the Wembley International Indoor Professional Tennis Tournament, in straight sets, over Welby Van Horn...