Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write to you to express my admiration for your July 13 article on Earl Long. It is an exceptionally fine piece of reporting, evoking all the seemingly unbelievable Faulknerian overtones of the situation...
Vacationing in Fort Worth to get away from it all, Louisiana's ailing Democratic Governor Earl K. Long, 63, obstinately ignored his grievous state of health (a continuing mental crackup, failing heart, aftereffects of a mild stroke), declared that he is as knowledgeable as all his doctors and psychiatrists put together, "dis-hired" the whole passel of them. In the Will Rogers suite of the Hotel Texas next day, in rumpled drawers and sports shirt, Long received Methodist Parson G. W. French Jr., president of the city's General Ministers Association. After Long had rambled...
Toward week's end, not getting an expected invitation to harangue the Texas state legislature, Ole Earl headed for El Paso and the night life of Juarez, just across the Mexican border. He bounced back fast to foray north into New Mexico, where at Ruidoso Downs race track he plunked down a horse-choking roll of at least $12,000 on several races, later allowed: "Ah think Ah made a couple hundred dollars...
...Born. To Earl Belle, 27, Pittsburgh's boy wonder of finance, who ran off to Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro, and Naoma Wallman, 25, blondish showgirl: their first child, a son; in Rio de Janeiro. Name: Clint Randolph. Weight...
...anguish. His main objections were to the color of his suit (brown, which he never wears) and the angle of his gaze (oblique, instead of piercing the viewer from any angle). Said Goodie: "All the eyes follow you at the capitol. That's very important. [Culbert] Olson and [Earl] Warren-the eyes follow you. I said to Booth during the sittings, I said, 'Mr. Booth, please, put the eyes like Earl Warren's. I'll give you the money to go to Sacramento to see Warren's eyes!'" The esthetic quarrel will be resolved...