His appointment, he said, represented the first time someone from outside the Carnegie family had held that position.
But The Times had held that story for more than a year at the urging of the Bush administration, which claimed it would hurt national security.
He had held that position for just seven months after stepping down at Doubleday, which was dismantled in a restructuring of Random House last December.
"This man is in fact the least interesting person in America," one Guinness official said, adding that Mr. Romney himself had held that title since 1947.
Katharine Graham, the chairman of the Washington Post Company, was there, and so was her son Donald, who was then the publisher, and Howard Simons, then the managing editor, who had held that job during the Watergate affair.
Back then, he would probably never have believed that the opposition his United team had held that night in northern Spain would become his next managerial destination.
Pakistan, which had held that position for more than a decade, was second with 1.51 million.
The Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship, overruling the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which had held that Americans descended from African slaves could not be citizens of the United States.
Travel Office Director Billy Ray Dale had held that position since 1982, serving through most of the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, and had started in the Travel Office in 1961.
How many fans even realized that Faulk had held that record?
In 107 Licinius Sura had held that office for the third time, an honour vouchsafed to very few.
