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...round softies of today, get on your feet and salute a man." The man thus challengingly saluted: Frank Crosby, dead in his mid-70s, who 50 years ago fought the longest and strangest knockout fight in history. The saluter: Ed Wray, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports editor...
...Longest gloved fight on record: no rounds (7 hr., 19 min.) between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke at New Orleans, La., April 6, 1893. When both men were unable to continue, the referee ruled it no contest...
Franklin Roosevelt took nearly a month of preparation and a full 10,000 words-his longest message ever-to propose his food policy to Congress. He had reason for the work and the words: he knew that to please one potent force in the U.S.-the farmer-he must displease another potent sector-the consumer. His characteristic ambition: to please both. His solution: more farm subsidies...
Edward Justus Parker, who looks like a freshly shaven Santa Claus, was having the time of his long life last week. Parker was retiring as National Commander of the Salvation Army, in which he had served for 58 years (longest service of any living Army officer). He found that retiring was a job that kept him busier than routine Army work...
...fatal. ... He and he alone, after months of hard work succeeded in hammering out a solution of the reparations problem, ruthlessly scaling down the demands ... to be sure that France could pay without undue strain what he ordered. . . . Europe owed to this dual functioning of common sense the longest peace it has known for centuries, and that is surely a greater claim to glory than all the Duke's victories from Assaye to Waterloo...