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...Longest-sitting Democrat: Tennessee's McKellar (32 years). Alltime recordholder: Wyoming Republican Francis D. Warren, who served a total of 37 years between 1890 and his death...
Hardy Network platter-spinners concluded almost 90 continuous hours of broadcasting at noon yesterday. The longest non-stop program in Crimson recorded history began Thursday with Mozart and finished yesterday with hillbilly tunes...
Milhaud's "Saudades do Brazil" filled the gap between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents a rather uneven collection of interesting and dull music, chief objection to which lies in the fact that the peaks and lows arrive with such regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance...
Keiver, captain of last year's Jayvee football eleven, is far and away the longest hitter, and should prove a valuable asset on windy days...
Meanwhile, Ed Barit prodded his engineers to recapture the art which had given Hudson the industry's longest list of "firsts" (e.g., first aluminum pistons, first rear luggage compartment, first steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance. The new Hudson was so low that passengers step over the frame and down into it from the curb, yet it still has more headroom and width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced...