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...mile to 4:02.5. Air Force Lieut. Bill Bellinger, world indoor record holder at two miles, set a new three-mile record -13:37. Shotputter Parry O'Brien uncorked a heave of 62 ft. 1¼ in. to better his own world record. ¶ The nation's longest college basketball winning streak was snapped rudely at 30 in Lexington, Ky., when Auburn ran into Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats, took a 75-56 clobbering in a game made lively by fisticuffs...
...even have my doubts about whether that historic match between Ulysses and Ajax was a shoot. I still don't think you can get a better night's entertainment than you will by seeing your favorite hero tangle with a villain. This plot has had the longest run in show business, so it must have something...
...performance for 1,200 conventioneers from the National Homebuilders Association. Said one homebuilder: "This is exactly the sort of thing this industry needs. We're too stodgy." ¶ Jingly, gutter-wise Threepenny Opera passed its 1,405th performance, became New York's third longest running musical, behind Oklahoma! (2,248) and South Pacific (1,925). Gross of the 229-seat Theater de Lys totals $1,250,000 -more than the combined take of the other top 18 off-Broadway shows for the past ten years...
...presses of New York City's nine major dailies were rolling again this week after the longest, costliest newspaper strike in the city's history...
ARTILLERY BATTLE : Communist China's gunners laid down on Quemoy one of the most intense and longest-sustained artillery bombardments ever directed against a single objective. High point: the Communists fired 60,000 rounds from 300 guns on Sept. 11. The bombardment caused serious disruption on the supply beaches, smashed up two Chinese Nationalist airstrips, outgunned Nationalist artillerymen-but it had little effect on the morale of the dug-in Nationalist troops, many of them Formosans. As bombardment wore on, the Nationalists got emergency schooling from U.S. officers and noncoms on fast unloading techniques, deployed underwater demolition teams...