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ELIZABETH S. HEAD Galveston, Texas...
...couldn't TIME publish articles about our great Galveston wharves, the lifeline of our city, or about the tourist attraction, which is a beautiful, 32-mile public beach with hotels, motels and recreational facilities? Galveston is also the favorite convention spot for many nationwide organizations...
...HARRINGTON Galveston, Texas...
Dressed in white pajamas and bathrobe, Louisiana's fleshy, silver-haired Governor Earl Kemp Long received a visitor in Galveston's John Sealy Hospital last week. It was Galveston County Deputy Sheriff Gerald Leslie. "Well," cried Earl Long, "I'll be damned. Here's a Texas Ranger! At least I know the law is on my side. Sit down and let me talk to you, Ranger." The deputy told Long that he had come to serve a writ. Said Governor Long: "I'm glad to know you're helping me. Now, son, sit down...
...window that night, and broke his bedstead. Finally, at week's end, he permitted a doctor to give him a sedative, and then, early one morning, he was carried on a stretcher into a white station wagon and driven to the airport for the trip to the Galveston hospital.* On the way, in his National Guard plane, Long once again erupted, demanded that the plane be turned back to Baton Rouge. Refused, he "busted" the accompanying Louisiana adjutant general to private, and "promoted" the pilot from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general. Still the pilot would not turn back...