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...KING'S MEN, by Robert Penn Warren, is based on the rise and fall of Huey Long, whom no one could put together again because he was dead. Of course, Henry E. Petersen wasn't around to try. 8 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m., at Brandeis University's Spingold Theater in Waltham...
Robert Penn Warren, the widely respected novelist and critic, received the only Doctor of Letters. Warren is perhaps best known for his 1947 work, All the King's Men, a semi-fictional book describing the Louisiana of Huey Long, a senator from that state...
...crazy social life. California is the only region not self-conscious about the East, the only region which dares to be independent without being defiant. And it can even make the East feel self-conscious about itself. The state is enigmatic; it harbors Shirley Temple Black and Huey Newton, Berkeley and Orange Country. It spawned the free-speech movement and has the largest enrollment in the John Birch Society of any state. It has at once San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...were extremely lucky," said Bruynzeel afterward. He had gambled by piloting Stormy on a longer northerly route, hoping to make better time by picking up more favorable trade winds. It proved a providential tactic; the heavily favored Ondine, skippered by U.S. Ship Broker Sumner ("Huey") Long, took the shorter southern route, and was so repeatedly becalmed that she had to drop out of the race...
...Spencer, and other noted figures in arts and letters. The pictorial supplement continued, as tame and proper as any Sunday rotogravure section, and photographs became a more important part of the paper itself. Football, in season and sometimes out, took up columns of front page space, and Hu Flung Huey, the Crimson's prognosticator, would monopolize Page One with his predictions for Saturday's games. Football extras rolled off the press with greater and greater frequency. Meanwhile, up front in the Business Office, things got worse and worse. 1930 gave way to 1931, and only some clever bookkeeping--the suspension...