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Fourth-string midfielder John Law narrowly missed on what was probably the longest shot taken this year on the Business School field. Just over the line Law took a pass from Hank Rate and fired it at visiting goalie Mal Purington, missing the cage by inches...
After Morse's feat, the rest of the 28-hr.49-min. session (longest since 1950) was an anticlimax. Backing down from the stand he had taken earlier in the week...
...previous record holder (18 hr. 23 min., in 1908): Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette. who had the benefit of rests during quorum calls. The preMorse record for talking longest without quorum calls (as Morse did) was held by Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender (12 hr. 20 min., in 1949). †Of such legislative shenanigans, the elder Henry Cabot Lodge once observed: "To vote without debating may be ... rash, but to debate and never vote is imbecility...
...General Assembly's seventh and longest session (100 working days) ended in a salutary display of unity. Before the house was a Burmese resolution accusing Nationalist (Formosa) China of aggression because of the presence of Chinese Nationalist General Li Mi's for aging army in East Burma (TIME, April 13). Russian propaganda has often accused the U.S. of financing and directing Li's army, but this time the Russians did not try to make any anti-American mischief out of the situation...
Washington's Griffith Stadium. Riding a tailwind, the ball sailed over the left-centerfield bleachers 460 ft. away, bounced off a 60-ft. sign, and came to rest in a backyard 565 ft. from home plate. "I unloaded on it," said Mickey Mantle. "I guess it was the longest ball I ever hit in my life...