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...Senator Russell Long, 31, son of Huey, nephew of Governor Earl, won a full six-year term to the U.S. Senate in the seat to which he was elected for two years (TIME, Sept. 13, 1948). Russell, who says that "the day of the demagogue is over," got 67.9% of the primary vote-far more than the demagogic Kingfish ever collected...
...face was familiar in Louisiana's back country, and they had no trouble recalling the name. It was Long-Russell Long, old Huey's 31-year-old son, who was speeding through the state, heralded by sound trucks, stumping for re-election to the U.S. Senate. The same tousled black hair stuck to his forehead, the doughy chin trembled as he made his ten speeches a day and crunched cough drops in between...
...demagogue is over," said he. "I have no apologies to make for being the son of Huey Long or the nephew of Earl Long. They have both helped the people of our state...
...term, lobbed back a benediction. Said he: "Russell will vote for what he thinks is right, regardless of what I say-I have already tried him-or what you say or what any pressure group says. He is an improvement on his uncle and also his father, Huey P. Long. He is better educated and respects the other man's opinions more...
Three years ago, Robert Penn Warren's novel based on the story of Huey Long won him a Pulitzer prize. In its movie version. All the King's Men walked off with a whole shelf full of Oscars. Now Novelist Warren is at it again. Though he has shifted his setting back to 19th Century Kentucky, he is still burrowing into his favorite theme: the corrosive corruption of power politics...