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...that viewers can tell when the commercial is over and switch the sound on again. Price: $2.98. Advertisements for Blab-Off have been refused by The New Yorker Magazine, the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, possibly because the sales pitch was right up there with the longest, loudest commercials : "Money Back If Not Delighted . . . Positively Guaranteed. . . It's Easy It's Simple, It's Sure...
...Another of his distinctions: to have made the longest-winded speech in U.N. history, which took up two consecutive Security Council meetings. Subject: India's misdeeds...
Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky (rhymes with Trotsky), a gaunt old man of 69 with stainless-steel teeth, delivered the longest funeral oration (27 minutes). An Old Bolshevik and longtime trades unionist, Zapotocky had once been popular with the Czech workers, but had alienated them by harsh complaints and horny-handed methods of spurring production...
Those who have known Ros longest and best say that her part in Wonderful Town is simply an enlargement of her own personality. She has always been forthright, both "musically and noisily inclined," and has operated under a full head of steam. After the opening, she cried: "Imagine! They're paying me all this money to do the things I do at parties for free!" She is famous in Hollywood for her ability to clown a dying party back on to its feet. Loretta Young recalls that at many a fading soirée, Ros has come...
...permission to "write sometimes and ask you questions." In the next two decades, Briton Laski asked precious few questions of Yankee Holmes, and frequently he wrote three or four letters to Holmes's one, but the sparks flying between two well-charged minds produced what is perhaps the longest and most scintillating correspondence of the 20th century...