Word: hrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until exhaustion, sleep or urgencies of nature ended the ordeal. Other North Carolina stations matched WFLB's stunt, upped the prize value progressively to $3,000. Sue Huron, a Pittsburgh secretary of 22, kept Fayetteville station WFAI busy crackling out regular reports on her monologue of 92 hrs. 1 min. 4 sec. Then Kansas got into the act, when 29-year-old Mrs. Carmen Araiza talked of enchiladas and children for 93 hrs. 36 min. 9 sec. over Topeka's WREN. Ready to challenge the new champion was Mrs. Edith Fisher, 29, a clerk in a mailorder house...
Died. Harold Charles Gatty, 54, Australian airman, navigator on the 1931 globe-girdling, record-setting (8 days, 15 hrs., 51 mins.) flight of the Winnie Mae, which brought international fame to him and to one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post (who crashed and died with Will Rogers in 1935); of a heart attack; in Suva, Fiji Islands. Gatty developed, tested and taught a stargazing navigational system that guided (via his The Raft Book) many wartime downed flyers to safety. In recent years he bought a small island in the Fiji group, founded (1951) and operated the successful three-plane Fiji Airways...
...Wheeling his British-built Vanwall into the lead on the second lap of the triangular course at Pescara, Italy, Britain's Stirling Moss was never headed as he set a record for the Grand Prix of Pescara (2 hrs. 59 min. 22.7 sec.) and moved into second place in the race for the world championship. Second at Pescara: Juan Fangio, who already has won enough Grand Prix races for the championship...
...show that he commanded the support of Red China-after the Soviet Union the most powerful of Communist countries-but also as a mediator. In Warsaw (see below) Chou obligingly gave out with Khrushchev's new hard line, but in private Chou was amiable and showed some of hrs earlier friendliness towards the Polish experiment. It was significant that the story about Khrushchev's slim margin in the Central Committee leaked from Warsaw while Chou was there...
Giant. In a big (3, hrs. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...