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...EARL C. COOK Buenos Aires...
...miracle maker was Birrell's Brazilian lawyer, Jorge Chaloupe, 52. Half attorney, half pressagent, Chaloupe ("I used to be a newspaperman myself") built his career around a careful study of Brazil's immigration laws. Recently, he rescued U.S. Promoter Earl Belle from deportation by stalling long enough for Belle's wife to have a baby in Brazil; parents of Brazilian-born children are not deportable. For Birrell, Chaloupe began by starting a flock of legal actions that blocked immediate expulsion. Then, as U.S. embassy officials explained to Assistant D.A. Hallisey, Birrell received a shipment of cash...
...scabrous House of Long. But a second look may have been more meaningful. There had been hardly any effort to block the adjournment; in fact, the motions for adjournment were made and roared through by many of Long's own legislative leaders and henchmen. Ole Earl's own reaction was another clue. Rushing half-shaved from his barber's chair to the skyscraper state capitol, he arrived just as the adjournment vote was being tallied, made a speech which was a startling departure from his usual profane tirades (TIME, June...
...What was Earl Long up to? Well, in his race for a third term as Governor, it would sure be nice to be able to pose as a martyr, to be able to claim that the durned legislature had adjourned without even giving him a chance to be heard. Explained Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, a staunch Longman: "The adjournment will earn him 100,000 votes...
Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. An expert biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff-piece...