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...Duke's impeded speech was brought painfully to public attention at the Wembley Exposition of 1925. Standing before a battery of amplifiers, H. R. H., as President of the Exposition, commenced a brief address, consisting almost entirely of syllables. The current had not been turned on, the Duke's voice could not be heard more than a few feet away. He turned to the exposition chairman seated beside him, just as electricians turned on the loud speakers full force. Instantly a Gargantuan voice boomed through the Stadium: "THE D-D-D-DAMN THINGS...
...Britain's prime ministers were assembled in London for the Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Not without much shrewd wangling and entirely "on his own," Painter Chandor got them all to sit together for a monster canvas which, when finished, was given a place of honor in the Government's pavilion at Wembley and later hung permanently in the Colonial Office. This piece of work entrenched Painter Chandor, at 27, in the very front rank of his profession...
Johnny Hayes, in 1908, ran the most exciting marathon since the one in 480 B.C., whereby Phidippides carried the news of a battle over cliff roads to Sparta. The 1908 marathon was run over English high ways from Windsor Castle past Slough, Wexham, Heath, Ruislip. Wembley, to a stadium 26 miles and 480 yards from the start. Marathon races were well-patronized then; the greatest of runners was Dorando, a confectioner from the island of Capri. Hayes was 22, the son of an East Side Manhattan Irish baker; he was 5 ft. 3 ¾ in. tall and his number...
...Lawrence is director of the United Kingdom Exhibition at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, President of the Design and Industries Association of Great Britain, and a former editor of "Country Life...
Speaking on "Modern Garden Design", Sir Lawrence Weaver will give the second lecture the evening of the same day at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum. He is director of the United Kingdom Exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and is President of the Design and Industries Association of Great Britain...