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...monologue in 1957, which set the record (still standing) for longest individual filibuster. The previous record (22 hours) was held by Wayne Morse, during a 1953 filibuster against Tidelands Oil legislation. In 1968, Republicans and Southern Democrats filibustered Abe Fortas, Lyndon Johnson's nominee to replace retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. Fortas, who was considered too liberal by many in the Senate, was eventually withdrawn from consideration for the leadership post...
...Bears—who were predicted to challenge for the league crown last year, only to flop and finish fourth—received 24 points from Player of the Year candidate Earl Hunt to claim their seventh straight win. After beating Dartmouth on Saturday, Brown now stands undefeated in the league with a legitimate shot to dethrone the Killer...
...innovation credit is being given to the small brands," says Robert Hanson, Levi's brand president. "We compete with them collectively. But we're seeing these brands take Levi's vintage styles and modernize them." Nevertheless, Levi's has taken some lumps from tiny jeans operations like Earl. And in a depressed retail market, the smaller fashion brands and boutiques are posting gains as bigger brands languish on shelves...
There are two great things about reviewing a romance novel. One is that you don't have to be worried about giving away the ending. Even though Susannah Ballister is stubborn and not conventionally pretty and the Earl of Renminster is stiff and pompous, I will tell you right now: they hook up. Here's the other great thing about reviewing romance novels: people actually read them...
...Hirschfeld's first wife, Florence Hobby, was a showgirl from "Earl Carroll's Vanities" whose stage name was Flo Allen. But his true love was his second wife, Dolly Haas. Dorothy Louise Clara Haas was born, in 1910, in Hamburg to a German mother and an English bookseller father. As a teenager she appeared in "The Mikado," "The Merry Widow," Wedekind's "Franziska" and a Max Reinhardt spectacle. In theater or cabaret, the redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets...