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...women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people adored and elected him. He built $200 million worth of highways, provided free textbooks for schoolchildren, lavished funds on Louisiana State University, went on to the U.S. Senate. He did the people some good but a lot more evil. He seized the state and throttled...
...will Nadheray be a slaughter, but Frank-ly a Moravec-tive attack I've never seen," quoth Huey. "Every time Moffie-t hurt, it Raines. I Glynn be wrong today the, I hope...
...Flung Huey ran after the Babb and finally Cotter. He tried to Werner, "Jakunski in the winter but now is the time to Suwall-o a Knepp of alcohol from a Silbur flask and Foster the football spirit...
...fighters, hangers-on-are human, pathetic and partly credible. Schulberg has hung around the sidelines of boxing for years, but only as a spectator. It is poor luck for him that Eddie Lewis' relationship with his boss is reminiscent of Jack Burden's with his (a fictional Huey Long) in last year's Pulitzer Prize novel, All the King...
Louisiana State University is the Deep South's largest university.* It once had a good medical school (which is making a comeback) and long supported a distinguished literary magazine, the Southern Review. Ever since the killing of Patron Huey Long, L.S.U. has tried to get out from under a reputation for control by politicians. Last week, after a five-month search, L.S.U.'s Board of Supervisors picked a new president. They had deliberately gone outside the state to find...