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...substance, "Louisiana Purchase" is a not at all subtle satire on the reign of King Huey. Bob Hope is the innocent front man for the Long Machine and victor Moore the pathetic and dyspepsetic Senator who is investigating skullduggery. With this as a starting point, beautiful women, hit tunes and funny episodes are wound into the plot quite logically and smoothly. Most musicals regard plot and tunes as mutually exclusive, and are forever wedging in extrancous specialty numbers. But "Louisiana Purchase" has maudlin Victor Moore and Zorina sliding into "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" with an unobtrusive kind...
...Southern Review was founded in 1935 on a cut from the millions "that moral idiot of genius" Huey Long lavished on the university. In its seven years' existence Southern Review has steadily enhanced its standing as the South's most literate magazine. The high standard of its writing and its editing, its interest in younger writers and avant-garde literature made it influential far beyond the South. With Europe too busy with war to be busy with literary experiments, the Southern Review became almost the only magazine of its kind left in the world...
Nobody has ever found anything seriously wrong with Maestri's administration. Federal investigators have raked over his record without finding a trace of the graft that sent most of Huey Long's inheritors (including ex-Governor Leche) to the penitentiary. Since he took office five years ago, he has pulled New Orleans out of bankruptcy, put its finances on a cash basis, cut $20,000,000 from its debt. Like the Kingfish, Maestri is smart. His friends dabble in rackets to their hearts' content, but Maestri apparently keeps his hands clean. "Let the other guys have that...
...cycle of reform that turned out most of the Long gang, rolled "Sweet-Smellin' " Sam Houston Jones into the Governorship in 1940, did not touch Bob Maestri. Instead, it got rid of his rivals for Huey's power. Most of the disgruntled Longsters who teamed with Sam Jones to lick Huey's brother Earl are now in Maestri's camp. It looks as if Reform has about run its brief cycle in Louisiana...
...year-old Herve Racivitch, who has been licked three times before-once for a minor city office, twice for Congress. If Maestri wins the city primary on Jan. 27, he will be on his way to the Governor's Mansion, may even start unpacking the rakish toga that Huey wore to the U.S. Senate...