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With its 1,4671th consecutive performance, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit achieved the longest run of any straight play in London's history. It had to play through months of robombing to overtake Charley's Aunt, the title holder for 50 years; it will have to run more than another year and a half to catch Chu-Chin-Chow, London's (and the world's) longest-running musical-2,238 performances...
...ugly peasants!" snapped the Duke. In the "cold, caliginous predawn" the huntsmen forded the Delaware. By afternoon they were thundering through the heart of New Jersey. At nightfall Hugo's mare grabbed the fox with her teeth, tossed it ten feet into the air. The world's longest and screwiest fox hunt (200 miles in 45 hours) was over. So, it soon developed, were Hugo's worries...
...dived behind an inadequate steel phone pole and hydrant. We tried three times to join the others, but each time bullets drove us back. Trying to accommodate my not exactly sylphlike figure to that reedy pole, I wished savagely its designer were in my place. Finally, after the longest five minutes I ever spent, we risked a dash and legged it back the way we had come and sat down behind a retaining wall and wondered what to do next. Civilians in windows and balconies offered all sorts of unintelligible suggestions in Greek or sign language. One sent a note...
Last week, one of the longest running gags and one of the most successful promotion stunts in radio history wore itself out. From Chicago, where it had been shipped for Saturday's show, the parrot's "Ken" was enlarged to "Ken I'm No" and this was interpreted (by reading backwards) to mean: "On my neck." In NBC's New York studios, Mr. Wickel smiled grimly when Edwards promised to mail the money between Pages 12 and 13 of a book...
People live longest in Arkansas...