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...International Olympic Committee scheduled a London meeting this week to talk 1948 games. Likely site: London's Wembley Stadium...
...five weeks in the U.S. viewing close to a million feet of film, spent many more poring over volumes of Americana. The final product is a composite of snatches from U.S. films-by Pare Lorentz, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the MARCH OF TIME-and original scenes photographed in Wembley...
Every Saturday half a million Britons go to the dogs. Even in winter, 200,000 Londoners throng 19 nearby tracks. Tubes and trolley busses to Wembley, Wimbledon and White City are packed with clerks, Indian students, Irish laborers, barristers and housewives, all conning racing reports in early editions of the Star and fresh tips in the daily Greyhound Express...
...greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
Last fortnight 66,000 Britons went to Wembley Stadium in suburban London to see England play Scotland at Rugger. The crowd gave a great cheer at the entrance of the Russian military mission to Britain. Also present was King Peter of Yugoslavia, now an Oxford student...