The Columbia Pictures release sets a record--a real record--at the open and it looks like it will run.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"Fables of Faubus" shows how Mingus occasionally butted heads with corporate supervisors: The composer wrote a libretto that further castigated Orville Faubus, the segregationist governor of Arkansas, but Columbia refused to let him record the text (the title itself was nervy enough in that buttoned-down era).

WSJ: Charles Mingus | The Bassist in a Box | By Will Friedwald

The record company jumped at the chance to best Columbia.

WSJ: Start Spreadin' the Blues | By Marc Myers

Columbia was not likely to keep investing in Springsteen if the third record failed.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

The biggest marine reptile on record is a 21m-long ichthyosaur, Shonisaurus sikanniensis, from Triassic Period rocks in British Columbia, Canada.

BBC: Arctic sea monster's giant bite