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When Arsenic and Old Lace opened in London in 1942, a great many people doubted whether war-torn Britons would find murder and madness very amusing. Last week, with its 1,050th performance, Arsenic nosed out Edward Sheldon's Romance to become the longest-running U.S. play in London's history. Everybody from the Royal Family down had seen it; Mrs. Churchill had seen it twice...
...last week, the smile that helped make Ott everybody's ballplayer was being strained to the limit. After racing to the longest lead of any big league team in a quarter century (25 wins against seven defeats), his Giants fell flat on their faces. They lost 21 out of 29 games (including a doubleheader with the hopeless Phillies), crashed from first to fifth place in eight days. The astounding Brooklyn Dodgers, who had once been doped as pitiful or worse, had taken a three-and-a-half-game lead-with the Cardinals, Pirates, Giants, Cubs and Braves...
Britain's fourth longest Parliament,* and one of her most momentous, passed into history last week. It had sat for nearly ten years (Nov. 14, 1935, to June 15, 1945). It had passed 556 bills and 11,902 statutory rules and orders. It had been led by three Conservative Prime Ministers-Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill. It had seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink...
...three longest: the 18-year Cavalier Parliament (1661-1679), the 13-year Long Parliament (1640-1653), the eleven-year Elizabethan Parliament...
Bishop Manning's first ambition is to tear down the reredos, a carved stone screen built behind the high altar in 1909. Removing it, he said, will make the west-east interior view "the longest unbroken vista in Christendom" (one-ninth of a mile). Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another...