Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fernandez' 13th, and a new record for jet kills. Previous record-holder (twelve): Colonel Royal N. Baker of McKinney, Texas, Fernandez' former commanding officer...
...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...
...comic landlady--are written and played as stereotypes. Because of Julie Harris, however, I Am a Camera successfully captures the Sally of the Berlin Stories. The immature, flambouyant nymphomaniac steps from the book as Miss Harris sweeps on to the stage with a garish pink scarf, a long cigarette holder, and delicious dreams of floating down the Nile with "sensual Arabs watching from the tops of pyramids...
...basketball coach's derision, a job cutting grass, and a military mixup led to one of the most successful wrestling careers in the history of the sport at Harvard. Johnny Lee, two time team captain and one time paratrooper, in the holder of this enviable record...
That afternoon, the Sabre jet pilots shot down six Red MIGs. But the one they were proudest of was Baker's: it was the twelfth MIG he had destroyed and made him the leading jet-to-jet ace of the Korean war. Previous record holder: another Texan, Major George A. Davis of Lubbock, who destroyed eleven MIGs in ten weeks, then was shot down himself (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Said Baker: "I just lucked out on him." The Air Force, just to make sure that luck doesn't finally run out on its new ace of aces, ordered...