Word: records
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another member of the small company of light-plane adventurers set a record last week. Peter Gluckmann, 33, a San Francisco watchmaker, piloted a single-engine Cessna 172 from Oakland to Honolulu in 20 hr. 39 min., thus became just about the biggest man (250 lbs.) to fly the smallest plane (145 h.p.) over the longest distance (2,400 miles) of open water...
...Four Cantabrigians who played contract bridge nonstop for 73 hr. 45 min. (618 hands, 87 rubbers), surpassing the old record...
...Nottingham undergraduate who shook 9,001 hands in the town square, breaking Theodore Roosevelt's record of 8,513 established at a White House reception...
These are isolated feats. The real craze at the moment is hiking against the clock. The fad started a month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service dress and carrying a submachine gun, marched the no miles from Dorset to London, eating buns and sipping rum for fuel, staggered across the Charing Cross finish line in mid-London 36 hr. 27 min. later, gasped: "Tell that to the marines!" The marines were serenely proud of his deed...
...bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said, has yet put her "young and dynamic" heart under contract...