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Dec. 12, 1949 - Britain's no.1. Needlewoman. For 122 nights when Betty Box's boy friends knocked at the door, her mother told them. Sorry, she's busy at Sewing. And she really was sewing, Betty, 26, a bank clerk, of Coppice - road, Middlesbrough, was embroidering a cloth base for a tray - and she did it so well that she beat all Britain's needlewomen to win first place in the London City and Guilds Examination. her evening class instruction, Mrs. Helena Smith, said Betty has been attending the class for only twelve months
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Attending Clerk Coppice Embroidering Examination Guilds Instruction Knocked Middlesbrough Needlewoman Needlewomen No.1 Really Sorry Told Tray
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