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...recess bell sounded at 11:48 p.m. Saturday, the Senate, but for a 25-minute break in Friday's wee hours, had been in session for a record-shattering 85 hours, 33 minutes. At that point, the filibuster had only one major effect: it exploded Knowland's fond hopes for a Senate adjournment at month...
Says Thomson: "Unusual works have more news value than Toscanini. The history of music is the history of composition, not performance. There is great validity in the constant performance of classical music, but the real news is deviation from the routine. For instance, I might be very fond of roast beef, but as food editor, I would find it exceedingly difficult to write very many interesting articles about the taste of roast beef...
...darkened bedroom. This was called his "midnight tango act," and while it was on, foreign office underlings would secure the Deputy Foreign Minister's signature on papers they knew Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop would not have signed. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, was passionately fond of his dachshunds, says Hoettl and when abroad would telephone daily to inquire of their health. Requesting a transcript of one of the admiral's tapped phone calls from Tangier to Berlin, the chief of the Spanish secret police was once highly chagrined to find that all the top secret...
...Administration's social-security expansion bill if the Administration would not press for its trade and tariff program, except for a simple one-year extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements authority. What the Administration got Reed probably could not have bottled up anyway; social security has the fond approval of most Congressmen, and a majority of Reed's committee already wanted the one-year trade-agreement extension. With the contented smile of a cat after swallowing the canary, Dan Reed proclaimed: "I'm part of the Administration." Maple & Vine. Democrats saw a way to make political...
...City penitentiary; of a heart attack; near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...