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...evening wore on, it grew clear to all that the unkempt man, Earl Kemp Long, had been elected for four years as governor of the great state of Louisiana. Since Earl Long was the younger brother of the late Huey Pierce Long (d. 1935), it was only natural that memories of "the Kingfish" should crowd into the hotel room, given the victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft...
...pioneering that Huey did had a lot to do with my victory," Earl Long said. "We were more or less opposite types, however. I'm the slow, plodding type, and Huey was quick and ready at all times. He was kind of on the style of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered the world before he was 21 and cried be cause he didn't have more worlds to conquer. Huey was like that. I've often wondered how Huey would have made out physically if he had lived to be an old man. He died when...
...Sell Anything." Nobody thought that Louisiana's new Governor-designate Earl Long had the fiber and versatility of brother Huey, who had made Louisiana his private province. Nonetheless, there were stirrings of shock, or of joy, that the Longs were making a comeback. Huey's son Russell is an able and respected U.S. Senator from Louisiana; another of Huey's brothers, George Long, is member of Congress from Louisiana's Eighth District. Earl's election put the capstone on Louisiana's monumental living tableau to the memory of Huey...
...Maha Thray Sithu, meaning Very High Big Honorable Officer of the King. Similarly honored was another servant of Empire: Britain's onetime Laborite Colonial Undersecretary, Lord Ogmore. And just to show who was who's beloved brother, the Burmese gave the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Earl Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India, the highest title of all: Agga Maha Thiri Thu Dhamma, or Very High Big Honorable Follower of the Righteous Path...
Mission Accomplished. In Seattle, Wash., Earl Frederick Sunde, on parole from a sentence for second-degree burglary, admitted to police that he had stolen a car to make regular visits to his parole officer...