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...limit proposition. His potential job is to make one big war-winning whole out of the individual production demands of Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW and civilian supply. Now when he says "let's walk around that idea," burly Outdoor-man Davis is talking about the longest walk he ever set out to take...
Though men from every House were invited to the straw drawing, only five showed up. Edward L. Hadley '44 of Winthrop, choosing for Leverett, picked the longest straw. William A. Rich '44 of Kirkland, S. Leonard Kent '43 of Lowell, Peter Dorsey '44 of Eliot, and Abraham H. Sadove '43 of Adams were the men who did the choosing...
...localized in the pelvic region. A silver needle is inserted into the caudal area, just below the spinal column, where it remains throughout labor. The needle is connected with a flask of the anesthetic, two-thirds of an ounce of which is administered every 30 or 40 minutes. Longest labor during which the anesthetic has been given: 13 hours. The primary purpose of the new technique is to relieve the pain and exhaustion of the early stages of labor, when an anesthetic is not usually given...
...Pledge America, a six-hour, 45-minute show, was the longest in the Blue Network's history. The broadcast started at 9 p.m. Saturday and continued until 4 a.m. Sunday with only one 15-minute interruption (at 11, to let Ford's Earl Godwin repeat Watch the World Go By for Western listeners...
...Longest ashore was the Montreal Standard's Wallace Reyburn, who had six and a half hours of it, finally had to swim off to a torpedo boat. Collier's Quentin Reynolds saw the battle from a destroyer, flagship of the raiding fleet, Associated Press's Drew Middleton from a 100-foot launch. Other U.S. correspondents: National Broadcasting's John McVane, the New York Sun's Gault MacGowan. MacGowan, a veteran roving reporter and soldier of fortune, had the unluckiest tale, got it through to the Sun, a day late, only after a long struggle with...