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...Yankee, born in Media, Pa. forty years ago, he had gone to Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) to be a member of its English department after teaching for eleven years at Johns Hopkins. He admitted he wished to "write a lyrical story of Louisiana life." He visited Louisiana bayous, talked to Creoles and Cajun folk, watched them at work in sugar-houses. Last week Dr. Uhler's cane juice was seething, fermenting angrily...
...friends: The common people, including labor unions, Gee-geets, from the bayous, cajans from the prairie parishes, hill billies from the northern tier...
Louisiana. After a bitter, vituperative, disorderly campaign Governor Huey P. Long, 36-year-old political wildcat, was nominated for the Senate over veteran Democratic Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell by a 35,000 majority. Senator Ransdell's white goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade...
Died. Father Jean Gerault de la Corgnals, affectionately known as the "priest of the Bayous," rector of St. Thomas's Catholic Church at Pointe a la Hache, La., possessor of the palm of the French Academy; in New Orleans, of pneumonia. When his parishioners refused to abandon their homes after the dynamiting of the Caernarvon levee to save New Orleans in the Mississippi flood, Father Girault stayed with them; became the only judge, jury, priest and doctor for the flooded parish of Plaquemines...
...societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background is suggested by a monster, high-ceilinged library in his big airy house on Bay St. Louis, far across the bayous on the Mississippi coast. Just as Louisiana is of all States perhaps the most detached and self-concerned, and just as New Orleans concentrates the independent-mindedness that makes this so, just so does Editor Marshall Ballard, with his loose, comfortable clothes, vigorous address and un concerned habits epitomize...