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...evening wore on, it grew clear to all that the unkempt man, Earl Kemp Long, had been elected for four years as governor of the great state of Louisiana. Since Earl Long was the younger brother of the late Huey Pierce Long (d. 1935), it was only natural that memories of "the Kingfish" should crowd into the hotel room, given the victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft...
...pioneering that Huey did had a lot to do with my victory," Earl Long said. "We were more or less opposite types, however. I'm the slow, plodding type, and Huey was quick and ready at all times. He was kind of on the style of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered the world before he was 21 and cried be cause he didn't have more worlds to conquer. Huey was like that. I've often wondered how Huey would have made out physically if he had lived to be an old man. He died when...
...pontificated that "anyone who takes American popular culture seriously must try to get at ... the sources of The Question's success . . . what it reveals about the American mind and about where TV is . . . heading." Lerner finally decided that the show was, in part, a morality play: "It is Huey Long's 'Every man a king,' put into TV language, but altered to say that even ordinary people can become high-bracket taxpayers-at least for one year...
Chep Morrison, reform mayor, was getting into what looked like a tight and noisy fight. Earl K. Long, brother to the late Huey and governor of the state from 1948 to 1952, had prepared for the 1956 Democratic primary by having all his teeth out. Other candidates (announced or probable) included Colonel Francis Grevemberg, Louisiana's able and respected police superintendent, and Jimmie H. Davis, a former governor who delights the crowds on the hustings by caroling his own compositions, You Are My Sunshine and It Makes No Difference...
Some young doctor is supposed to have wandered into the Capitol and shot Huey, but an even 70 percent of the B.M.O.C.'s known it was his bodyguard, who was after money or something. Naturally, an even 70 percent of the B.M.O.C.'s don't trust their friends. More specific cases will be enlightening...