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Louisiana has called a Governors' race and set Dec. 5 as primary day. And sure enough, Louisiana's third-time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) Governor Earl Long, 63, has put himself squarely in the running-even though, according to law, he appears to be politically paralyzed...
...they ever tell you o' Earl Long is dead," cracked a Louisiana politico, "you just ask them to call a Governors' race. If Earl don't git up an' run, he's dead sure enough...
...state constitution bars him from succeeding himself in the big white Governor's mansion built by brother Huey, but last week paunchy Earl sprang plans for a brazen circumvention: he will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...
Warming up for the new campaign, Old Earl ordered posters, stamped envelopes and 100,000 pocket combs. In the months ahead, Earl will shun television ("It makes me look like a monkey climbing a string"), happily concentrate on crossroads appearances in Louisiana's 64 parishes, whip up shouts of "Pour it on 'em, Earl...
...visible marks for leadership, scholarship or athletics. Once he made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore a ligament sliding into base. He graduated 86th out of 271 in the class of 1920. Among his classmates: longtime Army Coach Earl Blaik; Thomas D. White, now Air Force Chief of Staff; Lieut. General Francis W. Farrell, now Seventh Army Commander in Germany; and General Henry Hodes. U.S. Army Commander in Chief in Europe 1956-59-Second Lieut. Lemnitzer married Honesdale's dark-eyed Katherine Tryon just before he was assigned...