Johnny Haynes — Britain's Highest Paid Footballer
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- 1961-5-12
"Britain's Highest Paid Footballer"
Dressed in scruffy shorts and shirt, but as happy as a schoolboy, Britain's highest paid footballer turned up as usual at Fulham and took part in a morning training session. His girl friend Eileen Farmer was at ...
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John Caldwell – Winner of the World Bantaweight Title
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- 1961-6-13
"Briton Wins World Bantaweight Title"
John Caldwell of Belfast, Northern England, kisses his trophy after winning the World Bantaweight Boxing Championship by beating Alphonse Halimi of France on points at Wembley Stadium, London, England, recently.
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"He Is 'Trapped' in the Jewel Tower"
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- 1961-7-3
London turned out to give Yuri Gagarin another storming welcome today (13-7-1961) – and the enthusiasm of it kept him a prisoner in the Tower of London for ten minutes. Gagarin had to stay in the Jewel Tower until care arrived because the excited ...
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Londoners Greet American Astronaut
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- 1969-2-14
Colonel Frank Borman, commander of America's Apollo 8 flight around the moon, is greeted enthusiastically by Londoners as he arrives in Downing Street, to call on Mr. Harold Wilson, Britain's Prime Minister.
Col. Borman was later invited to Buckin...
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"Johnny Haynes is Home!"
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- 1962-9-7
"Cheers! Johnny is Home"
It's smiles all round as Johnny Haynes, a 26-year-old England and Fulham captain, arrives back in London last night (28.6.62). But it was a journey to remember for Johnny, six days after he was injured in a car crash. From...
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London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception
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- 1961-7-19
London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...
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Young Commonwealth Artists' Exhibition in London
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- 1961-5-9
"Young Commonwealth Artists' Exhibition in London"
The painting "Waiting Men" by art student Dora Orphanou of Cyprus (extreme left) stimulates comments from two of her friends, Bill Owusu from Ghana and Charlotte Baissac, 22, from Mauritious, as t...
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Whitney Reed in Distress after Missing a Shot
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- 1961-6-29
Whitney Reed in distress after missing a shot in his gruelling Wimbledon match which he lost to Neale Fraser. Fraser won 5—7, 6—4, 4—6, 6—1, 7—5.
Neale Fraser, Australian holder of the Wimbledon men's singles and No. 1 seed nearly lost his title ...
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Chuck McKinley in Play against Mike Sangster
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- 1967-7-7
It's the Rockhampton Rocket v the St. Louis Dynamo for the Wimbledon final on Friday (7-7-61). In yesterday's (5-7-61) semi-finals Rod Laver (the Rockhampton Rocket) of Australia rather laboriously disposed of India's Ramanathan Krishnan in a most...
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Plane Crashed in London
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- 1965-11-2
London Airport: The only piece of recognisable wreckage, of the the British European Airways Vanguard airliner which crashed in thick fog at London Airport, was the pilot's cockpit.
All 36 persons aboard the airliner, on a night flight from Edinbu...
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