Just for the record

The first Guinness Book of World Records was published in 1955 but now it is called simply the Guinness World Records book, says the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. But the idea for the book dates back to 1951 when the managing director of the Guinness Brewery at the time, Sir Hugh Beaver, was on a hunting trip. The members of the hunting party wound up trying to guess what was ...