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...toured the state's back parishes, sweating geniality, whomping out Dogpatch oratory, and invoking the magic name of brother Huey (whom he had called a "big-bellied coward" in 1931), the voters found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
...heard the news, Earl cried: "Happy days are here again and the Longs are back in the saddle. We'll improve on everything Huey did." Of his eight-year eclipse by the forces of "good government" he said: "I think maybe the Lord decided I could make a better governor at 52 than...
...work immediately, although he will not take office until May 11. He announced that he would set up a "little capital" in Baton Rouge. He wanted to prepare for the legislature; he had 3,000 jobs to hand out. The biggest, that of executive assistant, would probably go to Huey's curly-haired, blunt-nosed son Russell Long, a 29-year-old lawyer who wants to be governor too, some day. Earl also swore that he would keep his campaign promises (among them: free school lunches, $50-a-month old-age pensions, and bonuses for veterans), which...
Back in his clinic last week after the carnival, Dr. Ochsner quipped: "Once a King, but never a Kingfish." He referred to his ousting from Charity Hospital by Huey Long (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930) because he refused to make a political appointment. Known as "The Chief" to his colleagues and "The Great White Father" to his students, Ochsner sometimes thinks that he would like to be fired again: it might give him time to do more research...
Earl himself was not so much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...