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...century since the accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled longer (though only since 1967 as the head of an independent state...
Maybe he's right. But Fred Silverman, knowing that the best and longest-running television shows (M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore) have been the ones with sharply defined characters who catch at viewers' minds and offer them something to identify with, has been pressing for shows that are less job oriented and that give viewers an idea of how the Angels live off-duty...
...LONGEST THESIS--The opening lines from Henry A. Kissinger's 1950 summa cum laude senior thesis--entitled "The Meaning of History (Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant)"--read as follows: "An Introduction to an undergraduate honor thesis may seem presumptuous, but I believe that its inordinate length and unorthodox method require an explanation...the length is due to the fact that I did not realize the implications of the subject when I started to work on the thesis. As it grew, I made several efforts to cut it down...
Commonly believed to be the longest thesis submitted by a Harvard undergraduate, Kissinger's tome has in fact been outsized several times since...
...Longest Pass in Harvard-Yale game: 27 rows. In 1924, in the thick of Prohibition, Yale student Wally Lipshitz started the alcoholic bucket brigade which eventually saw a half-gallon of Wild Turkey inhaled in 17 minutes...