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Ending one of the longest over-all employee service records in Harvard University, Ned L. Merrill, dining hall steward for nearly 28 years, began his retirement Monday. Before his retirement Merrill was steward of the Eliot House dining hall...
...Longest in history: Troy, which, according to none-too-reliable Correspondent Homer, fell to the Greeks after nine years. Longest other sieges of World War II: Tobruk, 252 days; Sevastopol, 230 days...
...last vestige of Italy's African Empire. He had opened up a new base for British naval operations and a southern base for Allied ground and air forces from which the Axis' slipping grip on North Africa could be pounded and attacked. He had ended the longest chase in military history-1,300 miles in 13 weeks...
...siege of Leningrad was not the longest in history,* but it was far & away the longest in World War II. The Nazis termed Leningrad "a doomed city" on Aug. 21, 1941, when Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb captured the fortress of Schlüsselburg on the southern tip of Lake Ladoga, thus completing a 40-mile semicircular chain south of the city. The Finns pressed down the Karelian Isthmus from the north, leaving the Russians only Lake Ladoga as a link with the rest of the Soviet Union...
...climax his concert Duke trotted out a brand-new composition called Black, Brown and Beige, the polishing of which had kept the band up half the previous night. It turned out to be one of the longest (45 minutes) and most ambitious pieces of tone painting ever attempted in jazz. Flavored with everything from Stravinskian dissonance to three-four time, it often seemed too ambitious. But there were stages of the emulsion that might appeal to any musician...