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...simple and dignified" inaugural which Dwight Eisenhower had requested turned out, inevitably, to be the biggest, costliest, longest extravaganza in recent Washington history. Jampacked along the curbs of Pennsylvania Avenue, perched in trees or peering through cardboard periscopes, a multitude of 750,000 watched and played their parts in it, while half the population of the U.S. saw it all on television...
...their first sight of Mildred Didrikson Zaharias on the golf course, spectators often react like sideshow gawkers; they are first filled with awe, then with doubt, then with wonder. Obviously, they feel, no woman should be able to hit a golf ball so far (her longest drive: 315 yards...
...Cameron Mitchell, having a miserable day on the golf course, disconsolately whacked the ball with his putter from the 15th tee. The ball hit at mid-fairway, took a couple of bounces, skittered on to the green, and trickled into the cup for a hole in one and the longest putt on record: 576 feet...
...selling about 70% of our seats every week now," says Kirstein. "I don't have to spend money except for commissions." Next week the troupe will finish the longest run (twelve weeks) any ballet company has ever had in the U.S., and should wind up with an actual profit...
...Albany, Thomas E. Dewey began his eleventh year as governor of New York, the second longest tenure in the state's history. The record: 21 years (1777-95, 1801-04) served by George Clinton, first governor of the state...