Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previous record holder (18 hr. 23 min., in 1908): Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette. who had the benefit of rests during quorum calls. The preMorse record for talking longest without quorum calls (as Morse did) was held by Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender (12 hr. 20 min., in 1949). †Of such legislative shenanigans, the elder Henry Cabot Lodge once observed: "To vote without debating may be ... rash, but to debate and never vote is imbecility...
Marriage Revealed. Allen A. Zoll, 57, guiding spirit of the educator-baiting National Council for American Education and the defunct American Patriots, Inc. (listed as "subversive" by the U.S. Attorney General), who fought the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939 on the ground that Frankfurter was a Jew; and Genevieve Egan Tillar, sixtyish, widow of millionaire Texas Oilman Benjamin J. Tillar; in Washington...
This would have been higher but for more than 200 "no-shows" who failed to keep appointments. "Our goal may not be reached if so many continue to miss the times they are scheduled to give blood," complained Allen I. W. Frank, co-chairman of the drive...
Sunday night, the second annual Festival of Harvard Composers presented six works in a variety of forms and styles. I found Allen Sapp's Eight Songs to Texts by Robert Herrick the most appealing part of the program. The music not only established an appropriate mood for each poem, but also vividly illustrated their meanings. I don't think I'll ever be able to read "The Curse" again without thinking of Sapp's terrifying, almost screaming treatment of the opening words. Soprano Jean Lunn fully realized the emotional possibilities of the songs, and adjusted her tone quality, as well...
Number two Crimson golfer, Bruce Thurmond, fell before the 2-0 golf of Al Allen. Only other local player to lose was Pete Malkin, playing in the five spot. He lost to Dave Simpson...