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What was probably the longest sport-train excursion yet staged in the U. S. took place last week when the B. & O. R. R., encouraged by the success of ski and bicycle trains, inaugurated a fishing special from Chicago to Annapolis, Md. (850 mi.) for a week-end of saltwater angling in Chesapeake Bay. Of the 52 Midwest lake-fishermen (48 men and four wives) who made the trip, 40 had never even seen salt water. Returning home with 700 fish, mostly hardheads and croakers, the first batch of angling excursionists felt quite satisfied that they had $40 worth...
...that fight only cleared the field for a mightier one: over control of the country's conduct in case of war overseas. As 34 diehard-isolationists massed in Senator Johnson's lair under the Capitol rotunda to sign a manifesto, lines formed for the longest tussle of all between the 32nd President and the 76th Congress...
...managed to steer clear of hazards until he reached Buffalo Rapids, 50 miles from home, where he was catapulted into the air, bounced off rocks and tree stumps and landed in a terrifying whirlpool. But as he crawled out at Glendive he had crawled into the record books. The longest fresh-water swim on record up to last week was 281 miles, accomplished on Argentina's Parana River...
This unique journalistic backward step was news last week because it was taken by the 175-year-old Hartford Courant, which has the longest continuous publishing history of any paper in the U. S. The Courant has not missed an issue since Thomas Green pulled its first from a hand press on October 29, 1764. It printed the Declaration of Independence as news, numbered George Washington among the subscribers who read the lively, eye-witness war correspondence of Israel Putnam. Republican since the Connecticut branch of the party was founded in its editorial rooms by Publisher Joseph R. Hawley...
...trees, the Government's smart young men tried to make a forest by presenting a 291-page brief, for Judge Caffey to digest while the defense was in process. He needed a good digestion. With 159 court days behind it, the Alcoa case was last week already the longest trust-busting suit in U. S. history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute in 1933, the 120-day prosecution which resulted in the dissolution of the old Standard Oil Co. in 1911, and the 31-day prosecution which resulted...