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Campaigning for brother-in-law Governor Earl Kemp Long, limpid-eyed ex-Senator Rose McConnell Long, widow of Louisiana's loquacious Kingfish, made an eleven-word speech to expectant voters of Donaldsonville, La.: "I am happy to be here and thank you very much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Dern you," raged Huey. "I Seymour of a victory for Harvard this year than last. I expect the boys to Kemp in the Yale end none. The Harrison is boundless, and I Seabury a score of Harvard 20, Yale...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: ONLY DERN ZILLY CHILD WOOD DENY CANTANS'LL BURNAM UP | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

Burke comes from the same North Carolina school that Hal Kemp did. In fact, he did arrangements for Kemp for a while, but found that the Goodman-Basic style was more to his liking, and so he started a band on this idea. Results are not bad, the band's first record (Vocalion) "Tea for Two" being well arranged, with some decent solos...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

Love Never Went to College (Hal Kemp; Victor). Bandleader Kemp's vocalists, "The Smoothies," earn their name on this glossiest version of Rodger & Hart's glossiest Too Many Girls tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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