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Adhemar is part democrat and part demagogue, part do-gooder and part spellbinder. There is something about him that suggests Franklin Roosevelt-also Huey Long and Fiorello LaGuardia. He was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but now disclaims any allegiance...
Originally a preacher for the Disciples of Christ, a Middle Western faction, he later associated himself with Huey Long. Father Charles E. Coughlin, and Charles A. Lindbergh in an effort to "maintain a government... which abuses no minority and is abused by no minority...
Awarded to Robert Penn Warren, 42, Southern poet-novelist: the Pulitzer Prize, for his novel about a Huey Longish demagogue, All the King's Men (TIME, Aug. 26). To Robert Lowell, 29, cousin of the late Poetess Amy Lowell (and husband of Novelist Jean Stafford), went the poetry prize, for Lord Weary's Castle (TIME, Dec. 16). Both prizes had been skipped last year; this year the judges decided to skip the drama prize...
...Yesair," said the Flung Huey, "the bookies are Brasten to I that the final score will...
...with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...